@article{Davidson_Findlater_Fyfe_MacDonald_Marshall_2011, title={Connections with Hawaiki: the Evidence of a Shell Tool from Wairau Bar, Marlborough, New Zealand}, volume={2}, url={https://pacificarchaeology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/54}, abstractNote={A tool from the archaeological site at Wairau Bar, New Zealand, is identified as an import from the tropical Pacific. The tool was made by working a cutting edge on the apex of a spiral gastropod shell, identified as<em> Acus crenulatus</em> (formerly <em>Terebra crenulata</em>) (family Terebridae). Similar tools have been found in a number of sites in tropical East Polynesia, dating to the same general time period as Wairau Bar. The tool supports the view that the Wairau Bar site was a pioneering settlement close in time to the initial Polynesian arrival in New Zealand.}, number={2}, journal={Journal of Pacific Archaeology}, author={Davidson, Janet and Findlater, Amy and Fyfe, Roger and MacDonald, Judith and Marshall, Bruce}, year={2011}, month={Jul.}, pages={93–102} }