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Kumara or sweet potato originally comes from South America, but how did it become one of the national foods of Aotearoa New Zealand? The Polynesians that first settled New Zealand around 1300 were thought to just be hunter-gatherers and only later turn to farming. But archaeologists have used new research technology to prove the Maori arrived with plans and sophisticated techniques for growing kumara, and even started off in the cooler climate of the South Island.
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Kumara or sweet potato originally comes from South America, but how did it become one of the national foods of Aotearoa New Zealand? The Polynesians that first settled New Zealand around 1300 were thought to just be hunter-gatherers and only later turn to farming. But archaeologists have used new research technology to prove the Maori arrived with plans and sophisticated techniques for growing kumara, and even started off in the cooler climate of the South Island.

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