For those located in Ōtepoti, you are invited to come along to a mixer event to kick start Archaeology Week 2024! Catch up with other local archaeologists and heritage enthusiasts to discuss all things old. Nibbles will be provided. Would be lovely to see a range of freshly minted to those more seasoned heritage professionals!
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Préhistoire Pop-up Exhibition Join us for a mesmerising display of early artistry, curated by world-leading archaeologist Jean-Michel Geneste as part of Archaeology Week 2024. Through the lens of Jean-Michel's expertise, you'll gain a deeper understanding of our ancient ancestors and their way of life, journeying through millennia as you explore innovative research into Europe's archaeological
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Have a go at digging, cleaning, sorting & analysing artefacts with assistance from one of Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga’s archaeologists. Wear old clothes, water and dirt involved! Check out the exhibition of archaeology posters in the Granary. Free entry for all, children must be accompanied by an adult No booking required, just come along and
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The Final Passage, directed by Pascal Magontier, is an immersive fly-through of the famous Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave in southern France, which contains some of the earliest European cave art and records first-hand human experience of long-extinct animals. Based on 3D digital data captured in the cave, which is now inaccessible to the public, the film
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Only discovered in 1994, the cave paintings of Chauvet-Pont d’Arc cave in southern France are one of the world’s most outstanding modern archaeological finds. Intricate depictions of extinct animals speak to first-hand human experiences of horses, woolly rhinoceroses, cave lions and cave bears dating back as far as approximately 36,000 years ago. Researching the archaeology
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In the nineteenth century, the site of Dunedin’s new hospital was one of the most densely occupied residential areas in the city. Join Bree Wooller of New Zealand Heritage Properties for a guided walk of Dunedin’s Northern Cemetery to hear about the lives of some of the block’s earliest inhabitants, and to learn what our
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