“…The earliest attempts to assign an age to the Rotoiti eruption utilised radiocarbon dating and were plagued by difficulties relating to the age limit for 14 C dating (generally considered to be ~40-50 ka) and contamination with younger carbon material (Froggatt and Lowe, 1990;Grant-Taylor and Rafter, 1971;Lowe and Hogg, 1995;Nairn and Kohn, 1973;Nathan, 1976;Pillans and Wright, 1992;Pullar, 1976;Pullar and Heine, 1971;Shane, 2000;Thompson, 1968a;Vucetich and Pullar, 1969;Whitehead and Ditchburn, 1994). For many years, Wilson et al's (1992) (Thompson, 1968b), 2 (Vucetich and Pullar, 1969), 3 (Pullar and Heine, 1971), 4 (Grant-Taylor and Rafter, 1971, 5 (Nairn and Kohn, 1973, 6 (Nathan, 1976), 7 (Pullar, 1976), 8 (Mcglone et al, 1984), 9 (Ota et al, 1989), 10 (Froggatt and Lowe, 1990), 11 (Buhay et al, 1992), 12 (Pillans and Wright, 1992), 13 (Wilson et al, 1992), 14 (Berryman, 1992), 15 (Berryman, 1993), 16 (Kimber et al, 1994), 17 (Whitehead and Ditchburn, 1994), 18 (Lowe and Hogg, 1995), 19 (Lian and Shane, 2000), 20 (Santos et al, 2001), 21 (Chappell, 2002), 22 (Charlier et al, 2003), 23 (Shane and Sandiford, 2003), 24 (Nilsson et al, 2011), 25 (Shane et al, 2006), 26 (Wilson et al, 2007), 27…”