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Monday, June 30, 2008
"You never know how the past is going to turn out." Jude Quinn in I'm Not
There, 2007.
NEW publication: Archaeology of the Bay of Plenty
By Garry Law. 149 p.What is it about?
This report summarises the state of knowledge of the archaeology of the Bay
of Plenty, New Zealand, and reviews research themes and priorities of the
past and for the future. The Bay of Plenty is favoured as a place to live
today, but this has not always been the case. Its first settlement by Maori
seems to have been sparse, whereas there are numerous sites from the later
pre-European occupation period. The early economy was based around the
marine resources and soils, which were well suited to cultivation of kumara.
The first European visitors took relatively little interest in the region as
it generally lacked the gold and accessible timber resources that drove
early growth elsewhere, and cobalt-deficient soils made pastoral farming
unattractive in much of the area. The development of improved transport
resulted in greater growth, and pastoral farming increased as the lowlands
and swamps were drained. In the second half of the 20th century, exotic
forestry, energy and horticulture were the main drivers of growth in the
region, which now has a rapidly increasing population. All of these stories
are illuminated by the archaeology of the region, and there is great
potential to tell more. To do this, research strategies and plans need to
focus on gaining a better understanding of Maori settlement and resource use
away from the coast, examining the factors leading to the widespread
adoption of pa from about AD 1500, and making better use of the
archaeological material arising from mitigation excavations of Maori sites.
Comprehensive recording of historic archaeological sites is also needed.
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The above new publication is now in press and can be downloaded from:
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246entire.pdf (2.98 MB)
It is also available to download in parts (smaller file sizes):
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246.pdf (457 KB)
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246a.pdf (432 KB)
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246b.pdf (473 KB)
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246c.pdf (474 KB)
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246d.pdf (419 KB)
http://www.doc.govt.nz/upload/documents/science-and-technical/sap246e.pdf (227 KB)
Sunday, June 29, 2008
NZAA Cultural Tourist Page
Sites to visit - Northland - Now with a google map and google earth links.
Friday, June 27, 2008
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Jordan Times
Jordan hands over some 2,466 seized artefacts to Iraq. Return of looted material.
The Museum Detective
Podcast link: Godley Head – coastal defence in NZ
Peter Wilkins, curator, Godley Head Heritage Trust, talks about coastal defence in New Zealand from the Victorian period right through to WWII."
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
Nelson Museum Recent Acquisitions
The Tahunanui Archaeological Assemblage - May 2007
A very significant slice of Nelson's archaeological heritage was returned to the museum from Hawkes Bay where archaeologist Don Millar had been caring for it since he excavated the Tahunanui site in the 1960s.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
The Petition
New Yorker April 14, 2008.
Archaeology, nationality and the politics of the middle East in US academia.
Friday, June 20, 2008
NZAA Submission
To the Royal Commission on Auckland Governance
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Archaeology From Below: AIMA/ASHA/AAMH conference Adelaide 24-28 Sept 2008. "Join us this year in Adelaide, South Australia, for the AIMA/ASHA/AAMH annual archaeology conference. We borrowed this year’s conference theme from the 1960s movement "History from Below." That movement saw historians shift their focus from topics such as great men, big wars and political elites to subjects that previously had been neglected like women, children, urban and rural poor, immigrants and ethnic minorities. "History from Below" was also about engaging public interest in local histories and encouraging the public to take control of their own personal and community histories."
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Monday, June 16, 2008
Job Vacancies
Heritage Adviser Crown Land Disposal and Research
Based in Auckland CBD
Applications for this position close at 5pm on Monday, 23 June 2008.
Heritage Adviser Crown Land Disposal and Research
Based in Wellington
Heritage Adviser Crown Land Disposal and Research
2 positions part-time 20 hours per week
1 based in Dunedin
1 based in Christchurch (Vacancy 10)
Regional Archaeologist
Central Region - based in Wellington
Applications for these positions close at 5pm on Tuesday, 24 June 2008.
For further information and an application form, contact:
NZ Historic Places Trust
PO Box 2629, Wellington.
Phone (04) 472 4341 fax (04) 499 0669
Email: information@historic.org.nz
Friday, June 13, 2008
Thursday, June 12, 2008
Unearthing tales of a lost army - NZ Herald
The Herald has been running a series of stories on this excavation in France. Readers of AUSARCH-L will know this has been controversial with Aus archaeologists. They have criticised what they see as failure by the Aus military to get good advice before starting, on the excavation strategies, on the public interpretation of the finds, and even some for failing to use Australian archaeologists for the dig.
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Monday, June 09, 2008
TheStar.com - Fagan Book
The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations.
by Brian Fagan, Bloomsbury, 2008.
"In the South Pacific, possibly due to frequent El Niños, prevailing easterly winds changed to westerlies, opening the way for Polynesians to colonize Hawaii (800), New Zealand (1000) and Easter Island (1200)."
Sunday, June 08, 2008
Friday, June 06, 2008
New Zealand Archaeology: "Archaeology in New Zealand
Vol 51(2) out now:
Notes and News
Fieldwork
Andy Dodd: Motukorea landscape.
Garry Law: Hangi.
Scott Pilkington: Albert Park air raid shelters.
Pat Stodart: Metal pa kahawai.
Ben Shaw, Chris Jacomb, Richard Walter: Fluxgate gradiometer application."
Thursday, June 05, 2008
Wednesday, June 04, 2008
1 Unesco Convention for the protection of underwater cultural
heritage
Cuba is the 17th country to ratify the UNESCO Convention (2001), as of 26
May. Only three more countries need to ratify for the convention to come
into effect.
2 TITANIC search was cover for secret Cold War subs mission
The man who located the wreck of the Titanic has revealed that the
discovery was a cover story to camouflage the real mission of inspecting
the wrecks of two Cold War nuclear submarines.
When Bob Ballard led a team that pinpointed the wreckage of the liner in
1985 he had already completed his main task of finding out what happened to
USS Thresher and USS Scorpion. Both of the United States Navy vessels sank during the 1960s, killing more
than 200 men and giving rise to fears that at least one of them, Scorpion,
had been sunk by the USSR.
Dr Ballard, an oceanographer, has admitted that he located and inspected the
wrecks for the US Navy in top secret missions before he was allowed to
search for the Titanic. Only once he had used his new underwater robot craft to map the submarine
wreck sites was he able to use it to crisscross the North Atlantic seabed to
pinpoint the last resting place of the luxury liner. It meant he had only 12
days to find the Titanic. I couldn't tell anybody," he said. "There was a
lot of pressure on me. It was a secret mission. I felt it was a fair
exchange for getting a chance to look for the Titanic. We handed the data to
the experts. They never told us what they concluded - our job was to collect
the data. I can only talk about it now because it has been declassified." full story at: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article399
Tuesday, June 03, 2008
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