Professor Atholl Anderson; history & archaeology 'chose me'.

For decades Ngai Tahu archaeologist and historian, Professor Atholl Anderson, has explored the origins and historic migration of peoples around the Pacific, the first arrivals of Māori in Aotearoa and their early encounters with Europeans. His great, great, great grandmother married a sealer called George Newton, and their first home was on Whenua Hou, Codfish Island, and his father, John Anderson, was raised in the Scottish Highlands. Professor Anderson says his career 'chose me' and 'what you do in your life is determined by factors beyond your control'. Recently he released a revised edition of his 1998 book The Welcome of Strangers, A History of Southern Māori.