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Monday, February 23, 2004
Archaeological riches exceed expectations
Archaeologists excavating New Zealand's best-preserved early settlement, at Westport's Carter's Beach, have found far more riches than they expected.
A team from the Historic Places Trust and Otago University uncovered the site near the Buller River on a recent three-week excavation. It was first discovered in the 1970s by archaeologist D. Wayne Orchiston.
Senior archaeology lecturer Dr Richard Walter dates the site at between AD1300 and AD1400. 'It was a much larger and richer site than we'd anticipated. We've excavated a number of small houses and some large moa ovens for the communal cooking of moas, seals and dogs.' "
Sunday, February 22, 2004
Penny drops at Kerikeri
Recent conservation work under the floor of New Zealand's oldest building has uncovered a penny dated 1806, complete with images of George III and Britannia.
The penny certainly dropped for one of the builders of the Kerikeri Mission House back in the early 1820s.
'The penny most likely belonged to one of the missionary carpenters working on the house back in 1821 or 1822,' says the Historic Places Trust's Heritage Adviser at the Kerikeri Mission Station, Fergus Clunie. "
Friday, February 20, 2004
Cultural Heritage Evaluation Workshop (for specialists)
FIRST NOTICE
‘For what its worth – determining value and assessing
the significance of the historic and cultural heritage resource’
Thu 6 May 2004
Vodafone House, 21 Pitt Street, Newton, Auckland
Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Close encounters of the ancient kind . . . Otago Museum humanities registrar Scott Reeves and...
Masks and more from Peru
Just unwrapped, the ancient Peruvian funeral mask stares fiercely back, with unblinking seashell eyes and bone fangs.
Otago Museum humanities registrar Scott Reeves felt "mostly awe" yesterday as he helped unpack the copper death mask, with its cat-like fangs.
It once lay across the face of a powerful member of an ancient Peruvian elite, after death.
Lifted carefully from its packing case yesterday, the mask glowed soft green, from centuries of slow copper oxidation.
The more than 1200-year old mask was among the first of 200 ancient Peruvian artefacts, many from the Moche civilisation, which were unpacked at the museum yesterday.
"This is the kind of thing that you dream about," museum exhibitions manager Sean Gaffney said.
Seeing such rare and precious Peruvian artefacts would be a once in a lifetime experience for most New Zealanders, Mr Gaffney said.
He was impressed with the sophisticated skills in metalwork and ceramics shown by the Moche civilisation, which flourished in northern Peru for about 1000 years until 800AD.
The touring exhibits, from Peru's Larco Museum, have just arrived from their most recent display at the Australian Museum, Sydney.
Peruvian archaeologist Elia Centurion, a representative of the Peruvian Government's National Institute of Culture, kept a careful eye on the unpacking.
At the Otago Museum, the exhibits will become the heart of a "Temple of Doom" exhibition, devoted to the theme of ancient human sacrifice.
The show opens on February 28 and runs until May 23.
Thursday, February 05, 2004
Court rulling pdf
Human remains and archaeology - a famous USA case.
"We thus hold that Kennewick Man’s remains are not Native American human remains within the meaning of NAGPRA"
May not have much applicaion outside the USA but......
Aviation archaeology - Fighter ace honoured
New Zealand fighter ace Reginald Grant died when his Mk3 Mustang crashed in England 60 years ago - but he has not been forgotten.
English aviation archaeologist Roger Pickett has travelled to New Zealand to present brass plaques commemorating the death of Wing Commander Grant, of Woodville, who was 29 years old when his plane crashed as a result of engine failure on February 28, 1944, near the village of Orsett, Essex.
Mr Pickett was part of a group of aviation enthusiasts who excavated the propeller hub of Wg Cdr Grant's Mustang.
The firefighter, who is also secretary of the small Thameside Aviation Museum, believes it is important to remember the young men who gave their lives fighting a war thousands of miles from home.
It is a point reiterated by Ian Brodie, curator of the Warbirds Museum in Wanaka:
'It's an amazing piece of Kiwi history from so far away and the bit I like so much about it is that someone is remembering,' Mr Brodie said yesterday
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