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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

The Heritage New Zealand new Archaeological Reports Digital Library platform is now live on their website. These can now be searched by title, author, date, authority number and NZAA ArchSite number. The text within reports is also able to be searched on the platform. Reports can now be directly downloaded as a pdf, instead ofRead more

The Southern Cemeteries Archaeology Project now has its own blog. The project, co-directed by Dr. Peter Petchey and Prof. Hallie Buckley (University of Otago), has been carrying out work at the St. John’s Anglican Cemetery in Milton, and Ardrossan and Gabriel Street Cemeteries in Lawrence. The excavations were led by the concerns of the community,Read more

The NZAA Council would like to warmly congratulate Professor Atholl Anderson (Ngāi Tahu) on his Honorary Doctorate. This is being conferred by the University of Otago in recognition of his life’s work on the archaeology of New Zealand and the Pacific, and his contributions to Ngāi Tahu history. The conferment of his degree will takeRead more