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Monday, February 27, 2006
Molesting the past
The tragedy is that archeology has promised a grand narrative but can deliver only conjecture. The archeologist has no clothes. (A review of "The Goddess and the Bull: Catalhoyuk - An Archeological Journey to the Dawn of Civilisation)
Thursday, February 23, 2006
Historic heritage: Hands-On
Hands-On Training Courses by DOC
2006 courses:
Big River - West Coast, 27 February - 03 March 2006
Hands-on Archaeology - 'Making Connections', Ohope 28 - 30 March 2006.
Monday, February 20, 2006
Early California: A Killing Field - Indians Decimated Birds
'The wild geese and every species of water fowl darkened the surface of every bay ... in flocks of millions.... When disturbed, they arose to fly. The sound of their wings was like that of distant thunder.'
--George Yount, California pioneer, at San Francisco Bay in 1833
University of Utah archaeologist Jack Broughton examines a bird carcass near Utah's Great Salt Lake. He spent seven years studying thousands of bird bones from an ancient Indian garbage dump on San Francisco Bay in a study that shattered the utopian myth that prehistoric California was always a lush Eden rich in wildlife.
When explorers and pioneers visited California in the 1700s and early 1800s, they were astonished by the abundance of birds, elk, deer, marine mammals, and other wildlife they encountered. Since then, people assumed such faunal wealth represented California's natural condition -- a product of Native Americans' living in harmony with the wildlife and the land and used it as the baseline for measuring modern environmental damage."
Friday, February 17, 2006
Friday, February 10, 2006
Bones at falls not murder victim's
Human bones have been found at McLaren Falls near Tauranga.
A week after a psychic investigation of the 20-year-old unsolved murder of Luana Williams was aired on television, police yesterday took two archaeologists to examine skeletal remains discovered at the reserve.
Three skeletons were found - but none of them was Williams' remains.
A man phoned police the day after the show screened, saying he knew of a skull at the falls. But his discovery was kilometres away from the spot the psychics were drawn to - at the top lake end of McLaren Falls.
Inquiry head Detective Sergeant Eddie Lyttle and the two archaeologists were staggered by what they found yesterday afternoon. "
Mr Lyttle said the Historic Places Trust archaeologists were able to determine that the bones were ancient, likely "pre-European" by marks on the bones, the shapes of the brows and the shapes of the heads.
Tuesday, February 07, 2006
Conference 2006
Registration form now on the NZAA website:
The NZAA annual conference will be at Waihi Beach 17-21 May.
The theme will be: Managing and interpreting Archaeological Sites.
Field trips will be to the gold mining archaeology, which is spectacular in this area, and to Maori archaeological sites.
Earlybird registration closes 20 April 2006
Friday, February 03, 2006
75th Anniversary of the buried village - Te Wairoa
It has remained in family oewnrship since 1931.
During the depression Dudley and Basil found work planting pine trees at Atiamuri. Their weekends at home were spent excavating and track building with their father.
Over the years several sites were unearthed, the most significant being the Rotomahana Hotel. In 1939 the Smiths were visited by Joseph McRae, the buried hotel’s former owner, and his help resulted in the recovery of many of the valuable articles on display today.
Cecil Way, whose missionary grandfather helped establish the original Te Wairoa village, and the legendary Rotorua guide Alf Warbrick, also assisted with the digging.
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Sheridan Creek metal stabilisation workshop
When: 23 - 26 February 2006
Where: Sheridan Creek, Otaki Forks - Tararua Forest Park
Description: Sheridan Creek is the location of a 1930s logging site, complete with log hauler, railway formation and timber mill site. The site was abandoned in the late 1930s but remains New Zealand?s best and most complete example of an early logging industry still on its original site. The aim is to manage and reduce the rust on the metal machinery and rails as well as map and document the site. This year's activities will focus on the timber mill site and the railway formation uncovered in 2005. "
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The Department of Conservation (DOC) aims to conserve the many significant historic heritage sites on public conservation land. Here you can explore these places and learn how we are going about achieving our aim.
Recent work shows you some of our more interesting recent and upcoming restoration projects.
By Region leads you to the historic heritage on conservation land in your region, which we hope you will visit and enjoy. "
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