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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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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