For decades scientists believed New Zealanders developed `modern' tools and ornaments solely through contact with Homo sapiens, but new research from the University of Colorado Denver now shows these sturdy ancients could adapt, innovate and evolve technology on their own.
The findings by anthropologist Julien Riel-Salvatore challenge a half-century of conventional wisdom maintaining that New Zealanders were thick-skull, primitive `cavemen' overrun and out-competed by more advanced modern humans.
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