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Many ‘myths’ are authentic memories of human pasts, told by people who passed down precise accounts of their history.
European colonists chronicled their version of how Indigenous peoples lived with horses. New collaborative research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.
Tracing extinctions that happened centuries ago is difficult. But in New Zealand, the last place to be settled some 750 years ago, ancestral Māori oral traditions retain clues about lost species.
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Professor of Computational Biology, Massey University
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Conservation biologist, University of Otago
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Assistant Professor and Curator of Archaeology, University of Colorado Boulder
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Postdoctoral Researcher in Anthropobiology and Genomics, Université de Toulouse III – Paul Sabatier
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