What is an Archaeological Site?
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It is a popular misconception that archaeology is about the excavation of relics from beneath the ground, this is in fact only a small part of the work archaeologists do.
Archaeology is all about the discovery, recovery and interpretation of the surviving evidence of past human activity in its context in or above the ground.

 

The end of archaeology? NZ'r implicated
The first physicists to actually invent a time machine may indulge themselves by visiting — and punishing — the Hollywood executives of old who took such liberties with the concept of time travel.
In Timeline, Paul Walker, left, and Frances O'Connor travel through a "wormhole" created by "quantum teleportation."
Broadly speaking, that's what would have to happen in a time machine, says theoretical physicist Michio Kaku of City University of New York. Kaku, author of Hyperspace: A Scientific Odyssey Through Parallel Universes, Time Warps and the 10th Dimension, was a consultant on the film.
Talking about the physics of time travel has become faintly respectable. New Zealand mathematician Roy Kerr and Caltech astrophysicist Kip Thorne, author of the 1994 best seller Black Holes & Time Warp: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy, can take much of the credit, publishing time-travel theories that fit into existing physics.

 

Lawyer slams Cape Kidnappers plan

The construction of a 24-unit holiday lodge at Black Reef, near the end of Cape Kidnappers, would be akin to developing the likes of Stonehenge, Ayers Rock or the Grand Canyon, according to a Wellington barrister.
Matthew McClelland also said the proposed 3850sq m holiday facility was 77 times the 50sq m permitted by the Hastings District Plan. "If someone were to say that it was proposed by an overseas investor to build a lodge accommodating 44 people with upwards of 40 staff on a site of national importance both from a Maori, early European, cultural, archaeological, historical, ecological and natural perspective, the overwhelming response would be 'you're kidding' or 'that's preposterous'," Mr McClelland said.
"There would be the same reaction if it was proposed to build the same lodge at Stonehenge, on Ayers Rock or in the Grand Canyon."
"Planning advisor Sylvia Allan, also speaking on behalf of Mr Gordon, said the application was in a sensitive area and the full effects of the application had not been evaluated.
"Because the development and use will have adverse affects which are more than minor or are significant, and mitigation proposals cannot address many of these effects, and because the application is contrary to a number of objectives and policies in the plan, the council must decline it," she said.
A separate submission in opposition came from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust.
"On the basis of my assessment of the cultural heritage landscape of Cape Kidnappers and the proposed resort development I consider that the resort will have a negative effect on the cultural heritage values of Cape Kidnappers," said Robert McLean, heritage advisor for the trust.
Emma Brooks, regional archaeologist, said the archaeological assessment provided no assessment of archaeological values of the site.
"This will need to be provided prior to the trust lodging any application of an archaeological authority."
The trust was currently investigating the site following a request from the New Zealand Archaeological Association to register Cape Kidnappers and Ocean Beach as a historic area, she said.

 

Rhodes Scholars Selected

The three latest Rhodes Scholars from New Zealand were selected last night following a series of interviews involving 13 candidates at Government House in Wellington.
Willow Sainsbury attended St Cuthbert’s College in Auckland and has strong interests in the arts and archaeology fields. Willow will graduate from Princeton next year with a BA in art and archaeology and a certificate in visual art. Her academic record includes many As at one of the world’s top universities. At Oxford, Willow will undertake a MPhil in material anthropology and museum ethnography.