Hermione wrote,

> Could this structure have been built by a mysterious pre-Maori civilisation?
> YT video (15:28); the wall shown at, e.g., 02:41 - [youtu.be]
> And see here, [skeptics.nz], "A Geologist’s Opinion".

I agree that this jointed bedrock. Unfortunately, I have been able to find any
detailed description of this feature. There once was a great deal of controversy
about this feature, which was reported in the newspapers of New Zealand
over it. I have not been able find any of these articles online although there
should be a New Zealand news database somewhere archiving them.
At times, the discussion beacme very acrimonious.

The only accessable formal publication mentioing it that I can find is:

Clark, G. 2011 Identity and Alternative Versions of the Past in New
Zealand. Terra Australis 35: 5–15.
[www.academia.edu]
[library.oapen.org]

While looking the Kaimanawa Wall, it came to me that this type of
pseudoarcheaogical site form a continuum based upon the degree of
weathering and geomorphic etching. It would be a Class 1, consisting
of unweathered and unetched jointed bedrock and the class would
increase with weathering, later etching, and eventually complete
stripping of the regolith and corestones.

Yours,

Paul H.

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."
William Faulkner, Act 1, Scene III, Requiem for a Nun (1951)



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