Join us at Katherine Mansfield House & Garden for a talk about domestic archaeology in Wellington with Mary O'Keeffe. Mary is a Wellington-based archaeologist who has been poking around our city for the last 21 years. Her illustrated talk will look at what archaeology can tell us about how we used to live, where and
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A University of Auckland Anthropology Event Location: Room 706, Level 7, Human Sciences Building, 10 Symonds St. Date/Time: 1pm to 3pm, Monday 30 April Info: We are opening up our teaching and research spaces so everyone can come and have a nosey at what laboratory work we do as Biological Anthropologists and Archaeologists. Our student
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Fast moving presentations by seven people with wide experience on all aspects of archaeology, speaking to their slides. A fun, entertaining and a great learning occasion. Free entry No parking available at Old Saint Paul's
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Join council’s Principal Heritage Advisor George Farrant on a tour of Michael Joseph Savage’s memorial and mausoleum at Bastion Point, and see the re-excavated pair of 6” disappearing gun pits and other tunnels now beneath the memorial gardens, and learn about the mystery of exactly where the former Prime Minister is interred. Note that a
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Wednesday 2 May : 10.30 - 11.30 am. Sunday 6 May: 2.00-3.00 pm Discover Polish archaeologists' work in Poland and around the world, from Iron Age Biskupin Fort, Katyn Forest and Warsaw to Egypt and South America. Come and unearth links between World War 2, Resistance and Polish New Zealanders. Adults only, contains sensitive content. Free Complimentary
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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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In the 18th and 19th centuries thousands of people left the Old World to take part in the gold rushes in California and New Zealand. It was both the best of times and the worst of times, with the promise of easy wealth but the risk of sickness or violent death. Historic cemeteries provide a
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