Archaeology for the young & curious, a Heritage Talk for National Archaeology Week with Dave Veart. Dave Veart, archaeologist, historian and author Based on his book of the same name, David Veart will look back on a lifetime's interest in archaeology starting (illegally) aged 9 with his mother’s garden trowel in a shoreline midden in
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The Auckland lava caves are between 500 and 50,000 years old. They are not big in world standards but they were used by moa to fall into, Māori as burial caves and later as suburbia overtook the isthmus by Aucklanders, as rubbish holes or nasty things which delayed developers. Our techniques for recording the caves
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Location: Social Sciences Tea Room (Room 802), Level 8, Human Sciences Building, School of Social Sciences, University of Auckland, 10 Symonds Street, Auckland.  Time/Date: 5:30 – 7:30 pm, Wednesday 2 May  Event Information: As part of New Zealand Archaeology Week, Auckland Archaeological Society is hosting a seminar led by PhD Candidate Jane Jones, “Environmental Resilience
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