Australia & New Zealand in 1300: Māori settle — Section 660: Māori settle

Aboriginal and Māori first peoples, British settler colonies, and modern multicultural Pacific democracies. Australia & New Zealand is treated here as a cultural region — languages, foods, festivals, arts and living histories — not as a biological race. Borders blur; people move; traditions remix. When reading the “Māori settle” stage inside the Australia & New Zealand atlas entry, recording both the reference period and the operating boundary around figure 1788 prevents common misinterpretations in real-world decisions.

This guide gathers origin stories, linguistic maps, everyday cuisine, ritual calendars, aesthetic forms and how the region looks in the twenty-first century, including diasporas. Images lean on Wikimedia Commons where licences allow commercial reuse. Claims prefer dated, checkable history over stereotypes.

Is "Australia & New Zealand" one people? No. The label groups many communities that share historical contact, trade or aesthetic exchange. Local identities remain primary. Cultures are not sports teams. This atlas explains practices and histories without superior/inferior scores. Rather than relying on simplified league tables or slogans, keeping the primary Australia & New Zealand section open beside benchmark 1788 (“Māori settle”) gives operators and readers a verifiable decision trail.