Two different gardening traditions,Pakeha and Maori, have been practised in New Zealand. Which do you consider had the greatest environmental impact, and why?

Maori and Pakeha

New Zealand archipelago was occupied by humans in a very brief time Before 1100-1200 BC , due to its isolated southerly position , settlers who first moved from the oceanic archipelago of southwest Pacific managed to settle there (Green pp .19-51 . There are different scenarios for New Zealand settlement . Based on accounts , a long-accepted scenario suggests that New Zealand settlement occurred c . 800 AD , however , it has been vigorously debated in the last few years . Intermediate scenario is a little bit different from the first one . It mainly requires a much

br shorter period of adjustment for humans before their explosive growth of population . The last is also a short scenario . It argues for the initial settlement of relatively large groups with rapid population growth and acculturation to a new environment swift (Anderson pp .767-795 McGlone et al . pp .136-163

Until now , there is no concrete evidence to prove which of the three scenarios is true about the human settlement in New Zealand although some evidence like fire as indicator of human settlement was found . It is said that early settlers lacked metal implements or forage animals and to manage and modify landscape , they primarily used fire (McGlone pp .292-315 , pp .115-129 . But it was never clear whether the remains of burned forest were caused by a natural or an anthropological fire . It can be natural caused by the dry season and it can also be anthropological which indicates human settlement in that time . Also , in dating human era sites in New Zealand , they used radiocarbon dating They used several bog sites which have lower risk of contamination and few swamp and lake sites which have higher risk of contamination (Anderson pp .767-795 . Due to the contamination , which cannot be avoided , from the samples , results yield older and younger dates than the true date for human impacts . But in further evaluation , until there is no established dense network of well dated sites and no coherent pattern of environmental change , short prehistoric scenario was seemed to be provisionally accepted (McGlone pp .14-15

And today , New Zealand is occupied by more than four million people From these people , there are two major historical origins of settlers that gave a great impact on New Zealand 's early times and contributed mainly to what is New Zealand now - the Maori and Pakeha

Maori is the group of early human settlers of New Zealand mention a while ago . It has many definitions , like being the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand ' according to Ausubel (glossary . As opposed to the `different , Maori used the word to describe themselves European settlers were the `different they were pinpointing (http /maorinews .com /writings /s /other /pakeha .htm . Pakeha is the counterpart of Maori . These `others ' or `different ' was referred them But then , King used Pakeha to denote a non-Maori New Zealanders irrelevant to its color (p .12 . Maori and Pakeha just merely show that the indigenous inhabitant and the early European settlers of New Zealand were different ( HYPERLINK "http...