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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Conference
Conference page updated - now with a registration form.
NZAA Conference 6-10 June 2007
The Heritage Hotel, Hanmer Springs.
The theme for the 53rd annual conference will be: Archaeology in Isolation.
ARC Jobs
Historic Heritage Advisor (Built)
If you are motivated by promoting the sustainable use, development and protection of built historic heritage and having a tangible impact on Auckland’s Regional Built Conservation, this multifaceted role is for you.
Advising within a dynamic and enthusiastic client facing team, your working understanding of the Resource Management Act and Historic Places Act coupled with practical built historic heritage and conservation experience will ensure your success in this position.
Here you’ll relish managing conservation programmes and providing specialist advice and expertise to a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders.
Tertiary qualified in Historic Heritage Conservation with a proven track record with database and GIS computer programmes, including exceptional communication skills, you’ll be capable of hitting the ground running, leading and challenging projects and guiding others through a continually changing Built Historic Heritage Environment.
We are currently seeking applications. Please email Stacey.winslade@arc.govt.nz, or post to Stacey Winslade, Auckland Regional Council, Private Bag 92012, Auckland. For further enquiries telephone Ian Lawlor 09 366 2000 ext 8303.
Historic Heritage Advisor (Database and Information)
Reporting to the Team Leader Cultural Heritage, this position will play a pivotal role in the management and development of the ARC Cultural Heritage Inventory (CHI) computer database and the office Archaeofiles. The role will also provide critical information and advice on Cultural Heritage issues to a wide range of internal Auckland Regional Council staff, external consultants and industry specialists.
Your superior attention for detail and insightful analysis will be fully utilised in this outstanding career role. You should be comfortable building relationships across a broad network and develop and maintain high quality information for education and consent processing.
A background that includes information management and historic heritage conservation coupled with extensive knowledge of Resource Management Act 1991 and Historic Places Act 1993, will also serve you well for future growth. You are expected to be tertiary qualified in a degree related to information management or historic heritage resource conservation.
Above all you will be known for your passion, energy and drive and have the ability to engender the same the same level of enthusiasm for historic heritage conservation and information management.
We are currently seeking applications. Please email Stacey.winslade@arc.govt.nz, or post to Stacey Winslade, Auckland Regional Council, Private Bag 92012, Auckland. For further enquiries telephone Ian Lawlor 09 366 2000 ext 8303.
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Author Index ARCHAEOLOGY IN NEW ZEALAND Vols 31-44
An Excel spreadsheet download contibuted by Louise Furey.
This list is a complement to Furey, L and N Prickett, 1988, Author Title and Subject index of the New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter, Volumes 1-30, 1957-1987. Monograph 16 New Zealand Archaeological Association.
Tuesday, February 20, 2007
ICOMOS New Zealand is revising its Charter for the Conservation of Places of Cultural Heritage Value. The charter is now 10 years old, and whilst its in surprisingly good shape for its age, we have ten years worth of conservation practice and philosophy, plus Environment Court experience and direction. Thus time for a dust off and review.
ICOMOS is holding a series of meetings for interested users and stakeholders to discuss the working draft that has been developed by a group of ICOMOS members. All heritage practitioners are most welcome.
Meetings will be:
Wellington stakeholders Wednesday 21 March, 2pm Dept of Conservation, Manners St
Christchurch stakeholders Friday 23 March, 2pm HPT offices
Auckland stakeholders Friday 30 March, 1pm HPT offices, Queen St
Meetings will run for about 1.5 hours, drinks & nibbles provided. Please come with information and context on your experience of using the charter – what worked, what didn’t, environment court interpretation etc.
· To give us an idea of numbers please rsvp with which meeting you’d like to come to, to mary.okeeffe@paradise.net.nz
· For copies of the draft revised charter please Mary at mary.okeeffe@paradise.net.nz
Release date set for Indiana film
Archaeologist action hero Indiana Jones will return to the big screen on 22 May 2008, Paramount Pictures has said. Shooting is due to start in June 2007, with Harrison Ford returning in the whip-cracking title role. "
Monday, February 19, 2007
Ucol upbeat over campus project
Meanwhile, Ucol has been given the archaeological green light to start work on its new campus centred on Taupo Quay.
This follows five weeks of sifting through the area between Taupo Quay and Rutland St by a team of 12 archaeologists. Their work ended on December 22.
Jule Einhorn, director of the campus redevelopment project, said under the Historic Places Act 1993, Ucol was required to make application for an authority from the New Zealand Historic Places Trust (NZHPT) to investigate the site, given that it is part of the Wanganui city’s Old Town precinct and designated as an archaeological site. Ms Einhorn said they had received formal confirmation from the NZHPT that construction could proceed.
CFG Heritage consultants were commissioned to do the archaeological investigation of the campus site.
“The initial report prepared by CFG Heritage identified that much of the site had buildings erected later into the 20th century and, to a great extent, earlier 19th century archaeology would have been disturbed by then,” she said.
“Almost all artefacts found at the excavated site had been produced between the 1850s to 1870s.”
Sunday, February 18, 2007
Going underground for a piece of history
A North Head enthusiast wants the original entrance to the iconic disappearing gun excavated but the Conservation Department isn't keen.
Takapuna resident Tony Bickle says the original entrance should be restored and he'll dip into his own pocket to do it.
'I want to do my bit for archaeology,' he says.
The filled-in entrance was designed to service the rare eight-inch disappearing gun, so named because it retracts into the ground.
It was restored in 2005 and has a commanding view of the Waitemata Harbour.
Mr Bickle wouldn't say how much the project would cost but said it could be done in a day. "
Thursday, February 15, 2007
An international conference, sponsored by Wenner Gren and the Commonwealth Department of Environment and Heritage will be hosted in Mildura between 18-21 April 2007. Entitled the World Heritage of Human Origins, the conference will be of interest to a range of professionals and community folk. More details can be found at the following link where a tentative program is listed.
http://www.mungofestival.com.au/events.php?id=19
Please note that the dates for early registration have now been changed (the correct date is on the attachment from the web link). Also the abstract submission dates have been moved now to 9 March 2007. The sessions are based around the themes research, education, conservation, and management. The final day of the conference includes a session hosted by Australia ICOMOS which will discuss the potential for several significant sites for World Heritage nomination. If you have colleagues working in areas that you believe have the potential for such nomination please forward this email onto them.
Finally profits made from the conference will go toward the development of the Willandra Keeping Place and Cultural Education Centre, which will be operated by the Three Tribal Groups of the Willandra Lakes World Heritage Area. So your registration will go toward a very good cause.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Ancient chimps 'used stone tools'
The tools are 4,300 years old, say researchers
Chimpanzees in West Africa used stone tools to crack nuts 4,300 years ago.
The discovery represents the oldest evidence of tool use by our closest evolutionary relative.
The skill could have been inherited from a common ancestor of chimps and humans, the authors say, or learnt from humans by imitation. "
Saturday, February 10, 2007
Peaks, sounds, parks and islands tops in Kiwi eyes
Mitre Peak and Milford Sound comes in at number 1.Visiting Mitre Peak and Milford Sound is the country's No 1 'must-do' experience - but most Kiwis reckon there's no great reason to visit Parliament.
Or so says a 101 must-do list of the best sights, attractions and adventures on offer in New Zealand."
Ed: The historic heritage list is quite short:
16.Otago Rail Experience
25.Lake Tekapo Observatory and Church of the Good Shepherd
44. Arrowtown
46. TSS Earnslaw (vintage steamship)
49. Dunedin City (architecture)
51. Karangahake Gorge
61. Christchurch City
63. Te Papa Tongarewa museum
64. The Bridge to Nowhere (Whanganui National Park)
65. Coromandel Township
81. Auckland War Memorial Museum
84. Whakarewarewa traditional Maori village, Rotorua
85.Waitangi Treaty Grounds 89. Devonport and North Head
91. Auckland volcanoes
Only the last is Moari archaeology - or perhaps it isn't.
Wednesday, February 07, 2007
New web site: Australian archaeological association inc.
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. It aims to promote the advancement of archaeology; to provide an organisation for the discussion and dissemination of archaeological information and ideas; to convene meetings at regular intervals; to publicise the need for the study and conservation of archaeological sites and collections; and, to publicise the work of the Association."
Tuesday, February 06, 2007
Trust can't force Cleary to act
New Zealand Historic Places Trust chief executive Bruce Chapman said there was no scope within the law to make developer Eamon Cleary maintain the historic cottages he owns.
Mr Cleary owns three of the historic cottages in Arrowtown and has been criticised by Arrow-town residents for not maintaining them.
'The law has no teeth as far as maintenance goes. There is nothing in the Historical Places Act that says a person must maintain a historic house.'
'You can't force someone to spend money,' he said"
Maori heads returned to homeland
A collection of Maori warrior heads which have gathered dust in a British museum for nearly two centuries are being returned to their ancestral homeland.
The University of Aberdeen has agreed to repatriate the preserved human remains to New Zealand.
The nine tattooed Maori heads (toi moko) have been in the university's Marischal Museum since the 1820s.
A collection of Maori warrior heads which have gathered dust in a British museum for nearly two centuries are being returned to their ancestral homeland.
The University of Aberdeen has agreed to repatriate the preserved human remains to New Zealand.
The nine tattooed Maori heads (toi moko) have been in the university's Marischal Museum since the 1820s."
Saturday, February 03, 2007
Heritage Hubbard's big chance to save volcano
Mayor Dick Hubbard and his council are dying to be seen as born-again guardians of Auckland's cultural and volcanic heritage.
Putting aside, for a moment, the unique volcanic heritage of the site, what also astounds me is that these developments are to take place on the site - as yet unexplored - of a major Ngati Whatua pa.
In an "initial archaeological assessment" of the whole Orakei Rd peninsula prepared in 2002 for Auckland City, leading archaeologist Simon Best concluded that "as a site type the pa ... appears to be unique, in Auckland at least, due to its situation on a peninsula". This, "and its position, 4km from the centre of Auckland, puts it in a category of heritage importance second only to the volcanic cones".
It's ironic, given that Ngati Whatua has leased one of the sites for development, that Dr Best noted that the tribe regarded the area as "wahi tapu land", quoting a spokesman as saying it had "special spiritual, cultural and historical tribal significance".
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