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New Zealand Archaeology Week is from 1 to 7 April 2017.

The New Zealand Archaeological Association is working to increase public awareness and highlight the importance of protecting our archaeological heritage by promoting the work of New Zealand archaeologists both at home and abroad.

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New Zealand Archaeology Week 2017 will comprise of a variety of events around New Zealand.  These events are being hosted by consultant archaeologists, museums, heritage organisations and iwi and will include public talks, historic walks, and displays in regions from the Far North to the Deep South.

In addition there are some events that while not during New Zealand Archaeology Week 2017 itself the NZAA believe it is important to include and support events which are of a similar nature and which include archaeological aspects.

UPDATE: The heritage walk along Dunedin’s former shoreline advertised in the NZAA Archaeology Week Flyer will no longer being taking place.

UPDATE: The tour of Arrowtown and the question and answer session  at the Lakes District Museum advertised in the NZAA Archaeology Week Flyer will no longer being taking place.

UPDATE:  Due to the bad weather forecast the Tour of Whitianga Pa & Ferry Landing Stone Wharf/Old Mill site with Brenda Sewell has been cancelled.

Disclaimer: The NZAA does not organise the events, these are organised by individual people/groups. Information presented here is accurate at the time of publication. NZAA will not take responsibility for any inaccuracies in the information presented.  For up to date information on each individual event please contact the even organiser. 

Some events involve site visits or tours and require a level of physical fitness. Any participation in any New Zealand Archaeology Week events are at  your own risk.

North Island Events

Northland

  • Archaeology dig for kids, Hobson’s Beach, Waitangi Treaty Grounds
  • New Zealand Archaeology: A view from the Bay of Islands
    by Dr Ian Smith, Otago University
  • Butler Point Archaeology Tours
  • Archaeology and History of Tawatawhiti on the upper Hatea River, Whangarei
  • Hobson’s Choice – the story of New Zealand’s first Colonial Capital
  • Matakohe-Limestone Island Public Archaeology Tour
  • New Zealand Archaeology and the Story of Whangarei

Auckland

  • Aotea Great Barrier Island Walking Festival 2017; Walks with Archaeological focus
  • Maungawhau Forest Walk
  • Te Puke o Tara ( Hampton park) Walk
  • A Bay Where No Ships Have Been: The History and Archaeology of Auckland’s First European Settlement, 1832-6
  • Kowhai Park Guided Walk
  • Hidden Treasures & Hidden Atrocities: Archaeology Week at the Polish Museum
  • Polish Heritage Trust Museum School Holiday Family Workshop
  • Maungakiekie/One Tree Hill Tour with Garry Law
  • The Changing Face of Archaeology: application of technology to the Ahuahu Great Mercury Island Archaeological Project
  • Auckland Archaeological Society (ARCHSOC) Movie Night
  • Exexperience an excavation; Auckland University
  • Archaeology Lab Open Day at the University of Auckland
  • Anthropology in Action -MOTAT Science Street Fair
  • Identifying Environmental Change in Tamaki Maori Society 1400-1700AD

Thames-Coromandel

  • HMS Tortoise (spar ship) 175th anniversary; Thames-Coromandel
  • Thames Heritage Week 11th-19th March
  • Tour of Whitianga Pa & Ferry Landing Stone Wharf/Old Mill site with Brenda Sewell – THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO BAD WEATHER.
  • Getting to the Goldfield: A Guided Tour of Four Wharf Sites in Thames Borough.

Hawke’s Bay

  • Discussions on archaeology in the Hawke’s Bay
  • Central Hawke’s Bay Archaeology Day

New Plymouth

  • Archaeological display of Taranaki Archeology at Puki Ariki
  • Otoia Pā Fieldtrip

Whanganui

  • The Chavannes: Driving Whanganui into a new century; talk by Naomi Woods

Wellington

  • Tour of Pareraho pa
  • State of archaeology in the Hutt
  • Wellington Walking Tour
  • Mary O’Keeffe “Small things tell big stories: Wellington’s archaeology”
  • Bruce McFadgen “Up, Down, and Getting Soaked & the archaeology of earthquakes and tsunamis in the 15th Century”

South Island Events

Christchurch

  • Quick Fire Stories: Our Heritage Unearthed. The theme is archaeology
  • Archaeological Exhibition at South Library
  • Archaeological Exhibition of material from Christ’s College
  • Why we dig it: an online exhibition
  • Lyttelton Walking Tour – Take a stroll Portside

West Coast

  • Drawers of Discovery Exhibition,Shantytown, Paroa
  • Learning Experiences Outside the Classroom (LEOTC):Chinese Archaeology, Shantytown, Paroa

Dunedin

  • First Footsteps In Our Backyard: archaeological insights into the colonisation of the Pacific. A talk by Professor Glenn Summerhayes
  • Open day at the Otakōu marae (on the Otago peninsula)
  • Archaeological Activity Day at the Otago Museum
  • Archaeology Displays at the Dunedin Public Library (City & Mosgiel Branches)

Otago

  • Talk by Richard Walter on the prehistoric colonisation of Aotearoa

Southland

  • Murihiku; Stories from beneath

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