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,
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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
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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
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Ketemarae was a group of Maori settlements set in a bush clearing near present-day Normanby. It was a significant location during the Land Wars, but afterwards sank from view. Fast
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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
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Hear Professor Richard Walter, archaeologist, discuss the first settlement of the Waitaki District. This talk follows the talk Professor Walter gave for Archaeology Week last year on the colonisation of
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On Wednesday 2nd May, Kaikoura Museum and NCTIR are hosting a series of talks at the museum about archaeology and the Kaikoura coast. The archaeology of the area represents the enduring
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The first talk is from Matt Ryan, Adjunct Researcher at the School of Geography, Environment and earth Sciences, Victoria University of Wellington, who has done extensive research on soils and
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