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<< Our Photo Pages >> Maerewhenua - Rock Art in New Zealand

Submitted by Klingon on Tuesday, 07 June 2005  Page Views: 14974

Rock ArtSite Name: Maerewhenua
Country: New Zealand
NOTE: This site is 69.323 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Rock Art
Nearest Town: Oamaru  Nearest Village: Duntroon
Latitude: 44.86116S  Longitude: 170.687100E
Condition:
5Perfect
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3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
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4 Ambience:
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5 Access:
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4Short walk on a footpath
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Maerewhenua submitted by Klingon : These Maori paintings are dated from 1000 - 1500 AD. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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The writing is on the wall for iconographer by coldrum on Tuesday, 20 May 2008
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The writing is on the wall for iconographer

Hanging Rock's famous Ruataniwha image is probably derived from an Asian-Pacific culture more than 4000 years old, according to geographer, ecologist and planner Haikai Tane.

Prof Tane is an expert in traditional Dao iconography, thetransfer of knowledge through symbols.

He recently discovered a link between early Asian-Pacific people's iconography and cave pictographs found in New Zealand.

He reports in a paper presented to colleagues in the Chinese Academy of Sciences that the Ruataniwha pictograph from the Opihi cave has links to Dao symbolism.

Archaeological discoveries in the 1970s indicate they may have been made by descendants of the Hemudu culture, prototype polynesians who were boat nomads in the South China seas between 8000-4000 years ago.

And to ancient Dao experts the icons still have meaning.

In Asia Pacificiconography, the gourd, water dragon (taniwha), and sun bird are significant symbols containing cultural intelligence.

Haikai Tane also refers to two river dragon mounds recorded by archaeologist in the Ohau and Pukaki River bed in the 1970s.

It seems they were destroyed by road and river works for they are not to be found at the coordinates registered in field notes by archaeologists from Otago and Canterbury museum.

The symbols of the Ruataniwha Opihi Cave art can be "read" as watershed symbols. In 2004, Prof Tane accompanied members of the Chinese Academy of Sciences who took copies of the Ruataniwha symbology to two centres of traditional Dao learning the Tian Shifu Temple in the Jiangxi Province and Louguantai academy in the Shaanxi Province.

He says the Dao scholars recognised the symbology instantly. They all interpreted the images as a Dao model of a mountain-river-lake watershed.

A tiger mountain (Mt Cook) aligned to a dragon river and a dragon-turtle lake (Pukaki).

"Dao master Ren Farron readily identified the Ruataniwha cave etching as as an ancient Dao pictograph with readily identifiable components."

Suggesting that humans visited New Zealand before the generally accepted time frame of 1000 years ago, runs contrary to current New Zealand academic accounts of the first people to arrive in the country.

So far Prof Tane's findings has not been presented in New Zealand. Prof Tane claims that not many here will be interested in learning there are Dao pictographs of ancient vintage in Aotearoa New Zealand. Some people will probably be offended, he said.

When the paper was presented in China it attracted considerable interest. It is consistent with Chinese archeological discoveries of the Hemudu culture south of Hangzhou Bay which dates back 7000 years.

Prof Tane presented his paper at Xiaotong University Xian and at two academies of science in China.

Haikai Tane reports that the Hemudu people of Hangzhou Bay in Eastern China formed a proto-Polynesian culture around 7000 years ago.

From genetic research undertaken at the University of Hawaii and reported in the pan-Pacific science congress proceedings, the migrations of economic plant species such as cotton show they were taken to the Americas around 6000 years ago where they were domesticated. They were then returned as domestic plants to Asia by 4500 years ago.

He suggests these people may have visited the South Island during their travels across the Pacific more than 4000 years ago.

"It is likely the Ruataniwha pictographs were etched during one of these stopovers or early settlements to provide watershed maps of the two inland basins in Dao cultural iconography.

According to Prof Tane, the Opihi cave is along a traditional trail into the inland basin which he says several thousand years ago would have been forested and rich in food resources.

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