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Peter Metcalfe wrote:
> In article , Teauai@xtra.co.nz
says...
>
> > There was contact betweem Maori and Machu Pichu.
>
> Nonsense. If there was contact, then the Maori would have knowledge
> of Bronze working, pottery, Guinea pigs, Quipu knot-writing, Gold and
> Copper artefacts and Llamas from the Incas and perhaps Rongo-rongo
from
> Rapa Nui.
> --Peter Metcalfe
If there was contact??
Extremely unlikely I would say considering that the Inca hadn't even
begun their expansion from the Cuzco Valley until the early 15th
century.
Of course by that time the Kumara, carrying it's Peruvian name with it,
had long been present in Polynesia and was even present in Aotearoa.
If the ancestors of the Polynesians weren't originally from South
America then any later contact would have been with the Aymara or
possibly even the Uru or Taranga people of the Titcaca region.
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