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Friday, December 31, 2004
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
One for the consultants - project brief
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CONSULTANT’S BRIEF FOR THE PREPARATION OF AN HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGICAL MAPPING & MANAGEMENT PLAN FOR THE CITY OF CHRISTCHURCH
The Christchurch City Council has regulatory responsible for environmental land management and protection of significant archaeological remains within Christchurch City.
The Council requires a suitably qualified consultant/s with experience in historical archaeology and heritage management to prepare an Historical Archaeological Mapping & Management Plan. This will cover the post-contact settlement history of the City of Christchurch. The plan will identify, list, map and provide management policies for all known and potential post-contact historical archaeological deposits, sites and objects associated with settlement in the city.
Closing date for tenders is 28 January 2005
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Strong steps taken to prevent further damage to Macetown Historic Reserve
The Department of Conservation, in association with the Queenstown Lakes District Council as well as several local 4WD clubs and Coronet Peak Station, has taken steps to limit the continued vehicle damage to Macetown, while still allowing access to the public.
Several new measures will be put in place to attempt to protect the historic area. These include restricting vehicles to the formed legal road to the north end of the township, and closing all side roads. There will also be a locked gate at the north end of the town above the Richburn.
Friday, December 17, 2004
Plan to foil future 'hobbit' heist [December 10, 2004]
Although their 'hobbit' fossils were snatched by a powerful critic, Indonesian and Australian scientists will continue their quest for humanity's Southeast Asian roots next year, with new safeguards to prevent further filching.
According to Tony Djubiantono, director of the Indonesian Centre for Archaeology in Jakarta, from now on not a single fossil will leave the centre.
'Access will be allowed to the fossils, but the analysis will be carried out in the centre,' Dr Djubiantono said yesterday.
Archaeologist Mike Morwood with the University of New England in Armidale, NSW, added: 'We have discussed getting a proper safe and shelving (for fossils), not a filing cabinet.' "
Thursday, December 16, 2004
Noted elsewhere:
Polynesians in the Southern Ocean - Occupation of the Auckland Islands in prehistory - NZ Geographic 69 (Sept-Oct.
Latest JPS (113(3)) A 15th Centruy Maori Textile Fragment for Kaitorete Spit Canterbury ..., Chris Jacomb and others.
Monday, December 13, 2004
Giant pots, megalithic forts, massive horticultural terracing and mass graveyards : archaeological discoveries in Island Melanesia
University of Auckalnd Department of Anthropology Public Lecture
Dr Christophe Sand,
Department of Archaeology, New Caledonia Museum
'Giant pots, megalithic forts, massive horticultural terracing and mass graveyards: archaeological discoveries in Island Melanesia'
Thursday, 16 December
7.00 pm
Room 018, The Clocktower
22 Princes Street
Over the last two decades, renewal of archaeological research in Island Melanesia has allowed for a substantial rewriting of the long human history of this region of Oceania. Amongst other important discoveries, work in the large archipelago of New Caledonia and in the small island of Cikobia in Fiji, have brought to light spectacular finds spanning the whole spectrum of prehistory"
Wednesday, December 08, 2004
50th Anniversary Conference
KEYNOTE ADDRESS Brian Fagan
November 29 2004 - pdf download 80KB
Monday, December 06, 2004
Australian Archaeological Association
Relaunch of the AAA website.
The Australian Archaeological Association Inc. (AAA) is one of the largest archaeological organisations in Australia, representing a diverse membership of professionals, students and others with an interest in archaeology.
New NZAA Publications
Change through Time, 50 Years of New Zealand Archaeology, editors Louise Furey and Simon Holdaway
NZAA Monograph 26, 374 pp, 2004.
A review volume of themes in New Zealand archaeology contributed by newly emerged scholars, with a CD of classic papers that they selected to illustrate their theme.
Digging into History, 50 Years of the New Zealand Archaeological Association, Edited Mathew Campbell, 220 pp, 2004.
An intimate look at the history of the Association with reminiscences, photographs from the past, contributed by 42 different authors. This was the December 2004 issue of Archaeology in New Zealand and can be ordered separately.
The Meanings and Values of Repatriation
Multidisciplinary Conference, National Museum of Australia
Canberra, Australia
Dates: 8 - 10 July 2005
For many years indigenous peoples in various parts of the world have sought the return of ancestral human remains and artefacts of great cultural significance from western museums and scientific institutions. Especially since the late 1970s indigenous demands for the repatriation of remains and artefacts, combined with changing perceptions of the function of the museum have led museum workers and researchers to re-evaluate the worth of keeping these things.
Sunday, December 05, 2004
Archaeology Looking to Future, Says Visiting Professor
WHILE archaeology is the study of the past, today it is the future that is challenging those in the field.
According to leading American-based archaeologist Professor Brian Fagan, if thinking about the future is not a priority then much of the past could well be lost.
'Archaeology is changing and we really are at a turning point. Worldwide there is a lot of debate going on,' said Prof Fagan who arrived in New Plymouth yesterday.
He said it was vital archaeological sites and resources were well managed to ensure their future. "
Buddhas rise again from the ruins - with a bit of Kiwi help: "
In the small town of Bamiyan in Afghanistan you can buy postcards for 50 cents which show Taleban tanks firing at ancient giant Buddhas carved into the cliff.
The regime decided the Buddhas, which had stood for 1800 years, were un-Islamic. They were false idols and had to be destroyed.
With the statues standing at 53 metres and 35 metres, this did not prove an easy task. In early 2001, the Taleban worked on them for weeks, proudly announcing they were using 'everything at our disposal to destroy them'.
Eventually, they stuffed explosives in them and blew them sky high. Great piles of rubble lay where they fell.
But with a little help from the New Zealand Army, the ancient Buddhas may yet have the last laugh. A project is under way to save what can be saved and piece them back together, and New Zealand soldiers are in Bamiyan to help. "
Friday, December 03, 2004
The World Archaeological Congress
"Second Indigenous Inter-Congress November 8 12 2005
Rangataua, Tauranga, Aotearoa/New Zealand
The uses and abuses of archaeology for indigenous populations
Haeremai te Ao ki Tauranga Moana ki tenei huihuinga tangata
An invitation from the tribes of Tauranga Moana, Ngaiterangi, Ngati Ranginui and Ngati Pukenga to attend this gathering of people."
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