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Sunday, January 26, 2003
Aotearoa tradition spot on
New scientific findings have backed traditional Maori accounts that New Zealand was settled about 30 generations ago.
An international team led by Associate Professor David Lowe of Waikato University has pinned down the timing of the country's biggest volcanic eruption in 1000 years, at Mt Tarawera, to the winter of 1314, give or take a dozen years
The prehistory dating game
Fewer than 700 years ago, a violent eruption occurred at Mt Tarawera which dropped ash from the Bay of Islands to Hawkes Bay. Scientists who have studied the event say anyone living close to the mountain, or in the path of a devastating flood that swept down the Tarawera River, would have been annihilated.
Friday, January 24, 2003
Archaeologists, Robert Braidwood and His Wife, Linda Braidwood, Die
Robert J. Braidwood, a University of Chicago archaeologist who uncovered evidence of the beginnings of agriculture and the subsequent rise of civilization in the Middle East, died on Wednesday in Chicago. He was 95.
Money, landowners obstacles to history
Another attempt at recording Taranaki's historically significant sites should start in about two years, says the New Zealand Archaeologists' Association (NZAA).
Archaeologists cry shame over poor data
Taranaki's irreplaceable historic sites are being destroyed because of the lack of accurate recorded data, archaeologists are warning.
It is now too late for the preservation of an historic 1860s Land Wars redoubt north of Oakura which was partially destroyed by roading contractors in November because they were unaware of its existence.
Thursday, January 16, 2003
Waipu's past has oozed up through the earth with the help of archaeologists.
Archaeologists and volunteer diggers supported by the Department of Conservation and University of Auckland Archaeological Society have uncovered three sites of historical importance to Waipu.
Thursday, January 09, 2003
Chile fears it can't recover artefacts
Chile fears it can't recover artefacts
Chilean authorities are fearful their bid to a recover a collection of Easter Island artefacts, for sale in a Miami art gallery, could be hampered because the nation has not signed a UNESCO convention.
Art gallery dodges Easter Is artefact allegations
Art gallery dodges Easter Is artefact allegations
A Miami art gallery trying to sell a collection of artefacts from Easter Island in the South Pacific has refused to answer allegations that the collection was illegally imported to the United States.
Easter Island is a remote territory administered by Chile.
Kronos Art in Miami has two giant stone heads that might sell for more than $1 million each, but the gallery does not want to talk about them any more.
The company said that it does not want to answer allegations that the stone heads and other artefacts were illegally transported to the United States.
Easter Island Moai illegally exported?
Are heads artifact or fiction?
Miami display angers Chilean authorities
The inscrutable and mysterious stone giants of Easter Island have had archaeologists scratching their heads for generations, puzzling over the massive monoliths and the South Pacific natives that carved them centuries ago.
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