ANCIENT NEW ZEALAND SURVEYORS & ASTRONOMERS
In 2002 a resident of Hillsborough Auckland, Mr. Eric Lowe told me about entries in the diary his great grandfather who, during the late 1800’s, had worked as a New Zealand Government surveyor with such notables as Percy Smith. The grandfather had recorded words to the effect that, wherever he went to set up triangulation markers on the prominent hills, he could see the purpose-placed marker-stones of more ancient surveyors who had preceded him.

Similarly, in a very stimulating conversation with a learned Maori kaumatua-historian, he recounted an oral tradition passed down within his family that spoke of his ancestors arriving in New Zealand from India in 700 AD*. Upon making landfall, his ancestors encountered a well-established civilisation that they called "The Surveyors" ... because of their preoccupation with marking the landscape for overland surveying purposes. Although I was aware of many other names or terms used to describe the earlier civilisation (such as "The Stonebuilders") this was the first time I had heard of them being called, specifically, "The Surveyors" in the Maori oral histories.

*Footnote: Although our social-archaeologist and politically-aligned academics try to convince us that "there were no signs of human impacts upon the New Zealand landscape until about 1250-1300 AD", this "politically-correct" edict contradicts both the Maori oral traditions and the copious assortment of skeletal, artefact or landscape structural evidence, etc. In yet another criminal-cover-up of true New Zealand history and archaeology-anthropology, the remains of 53 very anomalous, ancient skeletons, held by Canterbury Museum (that have never been allowed to be properly studied or analysed by modern forensic methodology), will be "destroyed" on the 16th of April 2009. See: [link to www.wairaubarmystery.co.nz]

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