태평양 남서부에 위치한 이 섬은 서기 1300년 경, 최초의 폴리네시아인 마오리족이 도착할 때까지 사람이 살지 않았습니다.
그러나 최근 뉴질랜드 북섬에서 놀라운 발견이 이뤄졌는데요. 이는 이 지역의 고대 역사에 대한 우리의 이해를 완전히 바꾸는 것이었습니다.
카이마나와 산맥의 빽빽한 초목 속에는카이마나와 벽으로 알려진 거대한 거석 구조물이 자리잡고 있습니다.
이 벽은 돌들이 너무도 정밀하게 서로 맞춰져 형성되어 있기 때문에 그 기원에 대한 뜨거운 논쟁을 불러일으키고 있는데요.
이는 뉴질랜드의 선사 시대에 대한 우리의 이해에 커다란 도전을 하고 있습니다.
벽은 일련의 촘촘하게 박힌 돌들이 특징이며, 언뜻 보기에는 정밀하게 배치된 것처럼 보입니다.
Kaimanawa Mountains
Kaimanawa Range
Elevation1,727 m (5,666 ft)
A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak (mountain peak), and zenith are synonymous.
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Kaimanawa Ranges in the Taupo District of New Zealand
The Kaimanawa Range, officially called the Kaimanawa Mountainssince 16 July 2020, is a range of mountains in the central North Island of New Zealand. They extend for 50 kilometres in a northeast–southwest direction through largely uninhabited country to the south of Lake Taupō, east of the "Desert Road". Their slopes form part of the North Island Volcanic Plateau.
The lands around the mountains are scrubby. To the west, where the Rangipo Desert is located, the soils are poor quality. To the east, the soils are more fertile, but the land is very rough. A population of feral horses, the Kaimanawa horses, roam free on the ranges.
Unlike the majority of mountain ranges in New Zealand, the Kaimanawa Range is divided into private land. Considerable areas of the Rangipo Desert are used by the New Zealand Army for training.
Wilderness Kaimanawa – Heart of the North Island
Looking south from Thunderbolt (1638m) along Middle Range with Makomiko Stream and Rangitikei REZ to left.
Looking from Middle Range across upper Rangitikei to Makorako (1727m) at the north-eastern edge of the Rangitikei Remote Experience Zone.
The Kaimanawa wall. A Rock formation on Clements Mill Road in Kaimanawa Forest Park, New Zealand. It has distinctive straight edges.
The Kaimanawa Wall is a geological feature in the Kaimanawa State Forest. The Tuwharetoatangata whenua claim an “oral tradition” of the place as a kōhatu(rock). A popular theory is that the wall is a pre-Māori civilizationartifact.
The wall formation was inspected by an archaeologist and a geologist; neither saw evidence of a human origin. In a preliminary investigation, archaeologist Neville Ritchie of the New Zealand Department of Conservationobserved "matching micro-irregularities along the joints." This indicated that the blocks in the wall were too perfectly matched. He also observed the joints were neither straight nor truly horizontal nor perpendicular, indicating the joint alignments were too poorly constructed. Ritchie concluded the blocks are a natural formation based on the presence of matching micro-irregularities in blocks and imperfect joint alignment.
