Word: zealander
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...when the University purchased rights in 2003 to a 468,000-acre swath of New Zealand forest belonging to Maori natives to become the second-largest forest owner in New Zealand, industry sources estimated it sold for more than $600 million...
...with HTRG involves the sale of more than twice that amount of land, including about 720 square miles northeast of Houston, Texas; about 510 square miles in western Washington state; about 210 square miles in northwest Pennsylvania; and about 23 square miles on the Central North Island of New Zealand...
...rights to about 1,100 square miles of forest land, about 734 of which are in New Zealand...
...well the dna is preserved," says Matisoo-Smith, who will soon send her results to a U.S. lab for replication. Hands dusty from gently loosening fragile bones with a dental pick, Hallie Buckley works in the Efate heat barefooted and in a T shirt. A biological anthropologist at New Zealand's University of Otago, Buckley specializes in prehistoric health, and the discovery of Teouma seems to her a small miracle: "It just keeps getting better." Hidden within these graves, she hopes, are clues about how the first humans in the region interacted with a pristine environment...
...Teouma. He won't be surprised to find hundreds more burials there, meaning years of work ahead. In the meantime, the bones from this year's dig, carefully washed and packed, will soon follow Hallie Buckley to the University of Otago in Dunedin, in the South Island of New Zealand - the last place settled by Polynesians in their sweeping colonization of the Pacific. Now their ancestors are following them there. Even in death, the Lapita people's travels continue...