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Wednesday, February 28, 2001
When Maori anger took aim at the wrong target
The collection of Department of Corrections staff, Northland Regional Council staff, archaeologists and engineers had gone to the Kaikohe Golf Club building expecting to give and receive evidence in a resource consent hearing for the 350-bed medium security prison planned for construction at nearby Ngawha.
Digger indignant at verdict
Adam Archer went digging for old bottles - and found himself with a $6000 fine.
In the Hamilton District Court last week, the 29-year-old Hamilton antiques dealer became the first bottle digger to be convicted for damaging an archaeological site.
Bones found under Milford house pre-European
A human skull and bones found under a 90-year-old North Shore beachfront home are pre-European, a pathologist has found.
Museums exist for their authenticity
A little gilded frog posing as an ancient artefact of Central America certainly fooled some discerning burglars at the Auckland Museum this week. But any pleasure at the thieves' disappointment quickly palls when it is realised they were not the only ones to be fooled. And the awful question will occur to many who love museums: how many other items that appear to be artefacts are mere imitations?
Monday, February 19, 2001
Celtic NZ Connections?
'Why did ancient astronomer/ surveyors establish a huge overland alignment complex that ran from selected mountain summits across a vast expanse of Northern New Zealand? Why did they design this sequence to duplicate the star pattern of the Hyades in the constellation of Taurus?
Indiana Jones beats Bond in movie hero poll
LONDON - Indiana Jones has left James Bond shaken but not stirred after being voted top movie hero of all time by a massive majority in a British magazine poll.
(Yeh! - go Indy)
Norfolk Island
So at the archeological museum volunteers have sifted through the ash and carefully glued together hundreds of jigsaws of 19th-century crockery.
"See that mark there?" asks the archaeologist. "It's a cross with a 'T' on top. That's the mark of Thursday Christian, Fletcher Christian's grandson. That cup came from Pitcairn. They used to have a lot of potluck dinners on the island and everyone marked their crockery so they would know what to take home."
Friday, February 16, 2001
Rock Art
Ngai Tahu Development Corporation continue to support the completion of the South Island Maori Rock Art Project. Stemming from this are plans for the development of a Rock Art Centre, and the production of a learning resource on rock art taoka.
Maori Rock Art
Saving Maori rock art
Rock art is an important resource to the people of Ngai Tahu as it provides a key to the history and development of Maori heritage in the South Island.
However, during the development of the Waitaki power scheme, some rivers were dewatered, as water was diverted into canals, and other parts of river valleys were drowned to form lakes.
Thursday, February 08, 2001
Excavating trains - to restore
Auckland rail archaeologist Tony Batchelor has come to live in Taranaki – with huge plans to boost the economy of Waitara. In co-operation with the recently-established Hooterville Heritage Trust, he aims to create jobs in the town and attract tourists by setting up an operation to reconstruct historic steam locomotives, which may then run on the old Waitara-Lepperton line and possibly farther afield.
Stones tell of a rich history
The Otuataua Stonefields, a small but precious remnant of Auckland's early Maori and Pakeha settlement, will be open to the public from the weekend, capping years of efforts to protect the site.
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