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An Archaeological Wander Round Aotearoa New Zealand, or, What Can We Learn from ArchSite? Mary O’Keeffe ArchSite Central Filekeeper, April 2020 Remind me – what’s ArchSite? ArchSite is the online version of the NZ Archaeological Association’s Site Recording Scheme.  The site recording scheme was originally a paper based system, and in recent years an onlineRead more

Kia ora koutou! Welcome to New Zealand Archaeology Week 2020! Circumstances this year mean that Archaeology Week is online-only, so, while you won’t be able to go on a tour of archaeological site, attend a public lecture or visit an archaeological exhibition, you’ll still be able to learn heaps about New Zealand’s rich archaeological heritageRead more

Archaeology Week, 24 April-3 May 2020 Archaeology Week is going ahead this year as an online-only event. NZAA is working with a number of partners to develop and share content on our social media platforms: Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. If you have any content you’d like to share as part of the week, please getRead more

Kia ora koutou, Following the government announcement yesterday banning indoor gatherings of more than 100 people, I regret to inform you that the NZAA conference will not be going ahead this winter. NZAA Council is meeting this weekend (virtually) and will discuss future plans for both the conference and the AGM at that meeting. WeRead more

NZAA is pleased to announce that applications for the 2020 round of funding from The Walton Fund are now open. Grants will be made to enable and assist in any work that promotes archaeological site recording, records new sites, and/or updates old site records. Previous successful applications have facilitated archaeological surveys of the Catlins LakeRead more

NZAA, HNZPT and DOC are delighted to announce that Mary O’Keeffe has been appointed as the new Central Filekeeper. Mary will be well known to many of you. She has worked as an archaeological consultant in Wellington for over 20 years, and has had a long involvement with the Site Recording Scheme (SRS), stemming backRead more

As part of the work NZAA does, we provide submissions on policies, plans and strategies advocating for archaeology, through organisations such as district councils, Heritage New Zealand and other government agencies. These submissions will now be shared here. This submission was made to Auckland Council for their recently released draft Te Tāruke-ā-Tāwhiri: Auckland’s Climate ActionRead more

NZAA warmly congratulates its 2019 award winners! These awards acknowledge those who provided the best posters and papers in AINZ and at the annual conference. Best student paper in Archaeology in New Zealand: Jessie Garland, for ‘An archaeological survey of Catlins Lake and Estuary, Southland’, March 2019, Vol. 62 No. 1 Best student poster atRead more