Friday, May 03, 2019 at 3:00pm Richardson Building, Lab 1N10 Contact Claire Thorrold at claire-thorrold@live.co.uk for further details. To register for the event please email uoanthropologysociety@gmail.com Pottery workshop: Since it’s first use 20,000 years ago, pottery has been a huge part of everyday life with utilitarian cooking ware. Equally important is it’s use in ceremonies
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Saturday 4 May from 10am–2pm Otago Museum - Atrium Level 1 Family fun. Become an archaeologist for a day! Learn to sort and identify shells, analyse adzes/toki, compare animal bones (including moa), reconstruct two ancient ceramic pot puzzles and delve into the gallery trail to investigate the Museum's treasures! For further information please contact Rachel
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The Fernery was built around 1927-28. It is made of basalt rocks with Oamaru limestone vertical entrance stones. It is believed it may have had a glass roof with the glass taken from the ship the Paloona which was broken up at Port Chalmers about 1927. The aim of the project will be to remove
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Sunday, May 05, 2019 at 3:00pm. The starting place for the tour is at the Robert Burns Statue in the Octagon, Dunedin. Contact Claire Thorrold at claire-thorrold@live.co.uk for further information. To register for the event please email uoanthropologysociety@gmail.com Historic walk: Take a step back in time and tour Central Dunedin through the eyes of it’s
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