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Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Auckland University Press: Forthcoming Books
The Archaeology of the Pouerua
DOUGLAS SUTTON, LOUISE FUREY, YVONNE MARSHALL
The Archaeology of the Pouerua is an important book in Pacific archaeology, the third and major book to emerge from the Pouerua Project, which was a major archaeological initiative of the 1980s, studying the extensive pa (native village) site on and around the volcanic cone at Pouerua, Northland, New Zealand.
Monday, July 21, 2003
Mangere Mountain
Mangere Mountain Pa site uncovered
Mangere Mountain is one of the least modified of the big cone pa sites which once dominated the Auckland - or Tamaki Makaurau - skyline. The 50 volcanic cones in the area were sought-after Maori settlement sites. Their warmer, friable volcanic soils were more suitable in New Zealand's temperate climate for growing tropical crops like kumara, taro and gourds and they offered a clear view of potential attackers.
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Monday, July 14, 2003
Thursday, July 10, 2003
Heritage Trails: Helping communitites develop heritage trails:
Each New Zealand community and region is rich in it's own unique historic, cultural and natural heritage. To support this, the New Zealand Heritage Trails Foundation, a charitable trust, was founded in 1989 with it key functions as follows:
Co-ordinate & promote regional and national tourism developments concerned with New Zealand's heritage resources:
Facilitate and promote the networking of community heritage sites and resources through the establishment of heritage trail touring routes:
Preserve and promote regional and national heritage resources:
Facilitate and promote opportunities for employment and enterprise in the area of heritage tourism.
The National Heritage Trails site provides the resources for you to develop a local trail of heritage sites and natural features. This will preserve and share your history and importantly promote tourism, business and employment opportunities in your region"
Upcoming Events
Conservation Week 2003 Events
New Zealand has many special heritage places which have local or national significance. Throughout Conservation Week, we'll be celebrating places that teach us about the culture and lifestyles of the people who came before us and have shaped the country we live in today through a variety of activities & events."
Wednesday, July 09, 2003
Conservation Week
Wairarapa trip 4th August
Those wishing to come on the Palliser trip should contact Sally Thomas at DOC, Masterton (06-377-0723) so that she can track the numbers for catering and interest. Interested members need to arrange their own travel to Ngawi and beyond.
The programme is as follows
9am Meet at the Ngawi Fire Station on Monday 4th August. DOC introduction to the day
9.15am Kevin Jones will show some slides of archaeological sites of the area at the Ngawi Fire Station
9.30am Guests drive to the Cape Palliser lighthouse where Anne Aburn, author of Pirinoa, People and Pasture (1980) will talk about the early European's arrival and settlement into the area.
10am Travel back to Kupe's Sails where Haami te Whaiti will describe some of the legends and historical significance of the area. Drive to Black Rocks.
10.30am Tony Walton (DoC) will guide people around Black Rocks and describe some of the archaeological features. Drive to Pararaki and then onto the Washpool River.
11am Foss Leach will guide people around the Pararaki and Washpool Rivers and give an overview of the archaeology and history associated with the area.
12.30pm Visitors are invited back to Pirinoa Hall for lunch and to view other displays
Councillor looking forward to Historic Places role
Christchurch City Councillor Anna Crighton is delighted about her election to the board of the New Zealand Historic Places Trust Pouhere Taonga.
Cr Crighton chairs the Christchurch City Council’s Arts, Culture and Heritage Committee, is chair of the Arts Centre of Christchurch Trust Board and a director of Christchurch Heritage Trust. She also serves on the trust boards of Canterbury Museum, the Theatre Royal Charitable Foundation and the Music Centre of Christchurch.
I'm delighted (about the result),Cr Crighton says. It means I can spread my wings a bit, look at national policy and help shape that. We've a pretty good record in Christchurch and have tried new things to restore and preserve our heritage culture and keep it useful some of which have worked well and others less so and I think that experience could be used in other places.
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Tuesday, July 08, 2003
NZ a nation of culture vultures
New Zealand is a nation of culture vultures, a new survey shows.
More than nine out of 10 respondents (93 per cent) experienced at least one cultural activity during the survey period, the report A Measure of Culture, released tomorrow, says.
The joint Culture and Heritage Ministry-Statistics New Zealand study asked people about their regular cultural activities over the previous four weeks and irregular activities for the previous 12 months.
Activities included buying and listening to music, buying art, watching films, visiting marae, buying books or borrowing them from a library and visiting museums and historic places.
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Project Recognised for Heritage Contribution
The New Zealand Archaeological Association has acknowledged a motorway project for its sensitivity to heritage issues. In its biennial award for public archaeology, the association recognised contributions to site protection and raising public awareness of archaeology.
Transit New Zealand, in association with project alliance partners Beca Carter Hollings & Ferner, Fletcher Construction and Higgins Constructors, is the recipient of a 2002-2003 award from the Association for their sensitive undertaking of the massive motorway extension project in Grafton Gully.
Association President Garry Law said, “While ultimately destructive, the project rescued a large amount of information about early colonial Auckland.”
“The Grafton Gully Project serves as a model of how to go about urban development in a way which values our heritage.”
The features which made the project notable included the full integration of heritage issues in the project from the planning stage and full cooperation from construction crews and all specialists working on site. The project team implemented effective on-site archaeological monitoring which ensured that archaeologists were contacted even if remains were unearthed in their absence.
Public access to the archaeological remains is facilitated by displaying artefacts in the site information centre which effectively functions as a temporary site museum with signs and posters to explain the finds and the archaeological process.
Tangata whenua were also a critical part of the heritage team from the outset and helped the process.
Among the significant archaeological finds is the former Phoenix Foundry which was unearthed but could not be preserved in-situ. However, there are plans, initiated by tangata whenua, for reconstruction of part of the furnace on an adjacent site. Other finds, which could not be preserved but have been recorded, covered a wide range of industries which formerly occupied Grafton.
“It is the first time the Association has recognised a development project this way. I hope it is a standard that will be followed by others,” says Mr Law.
.Submission on the Antiquites Act
"The Association supports the intention to update the Antiquities Act , and considers it timely.... (pdf)
Clough and Associates
Consultants's web page - check out the resources page for the transfer printed china data base. It's a project under development.
Jim McKinlay long standing senior archaeolgist at the Historic Places Trust, now retired, has been made an honorary life member of the Trust.
Thursday, July 03, 2003
DOC Science publications now available FREE on the internet
From 1 July, all pdf files of our new science publications are available FREE for download from the Department of Conservation website. They are available 24 hours per day, you can choose which parts of a publication you print out, and you can return for as many copies as you like, all without charge.
Go to www.doc.govt.nz/Publications/004~Science-and-Research/index.asp and follow the link to the science publication you may be looking for. You will find all our current and past titles listed by series; each title published since 1999 now has a link to the pdf file as well.
Of course we realise that sometimes you will still need a printed copy. In this case contact us: unless the work costs $35 or more and while stock lasts, we'll send a single copy out to you, also FREE OF CHARGE.
Early New Guinea plant domestication
Now another region, the highlands of New Guinea, can be added to the roster of originating heartlands of agriculture. Australian scientists reported last week in the journal Science that they had found some signs that crops were cultivated there 10,000 years ago and strong evidence this was happening 7,000 years ago and onward.
Exploring Kuk Swamp, in a mountain valley in central New Guinea, the researchers uncovered plant crystals, pollen and starch grains that they said were part of the "substantial evidence for deliberate planting and incipient domestication" of two valuable food crops, taro and banana.
Wednesday, July 02, 2003
New Publicaiton
Capital Thirst: Wellington's Soft Frink Industry 1843-1988
by Peter Fisher
A guide to anyone interested in the Wellington soft drink industry. All known bottle types by each company/user (including ginger beers, crocks, and syphons) are included along with size varations. Other details include estimated year of manufacture, all inscriptions and markings, company histories and timeline, directory of bottle manufacturers, and a detailed glossary of bottle types including varations.
243 pages, softcover, dimensions 208mm x 293mm, over 600 black and white photos and line drawings. Published in 2003 with a limited run of 100 copies.
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