He Waitetoke Mire on Ahuahu-Great Mercury Island where the team found the taro and puha pollen.
A paper on this ground-breaking research, authored by Matthew Prebble, was published today in PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America).
The project on Ahuahu-Great Mercury Island is a partnership between the University of Auckland and Auckland War Memorial Museum, in conjunction with the Fay and Richwhite families and Ngāti Hei.