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Friday, July 30, 2004

 
East Coast Hawkes Bay Historic Sites
DOC web guide to the historic resources of the East Coast Hawke's Bay.
The conservancy starts in the Bay of plenty - so there are some from there as well.

Thursday, July 29, 2004

 
Job: NZ Historic Places Trust, Kerikeri
Northland Area Archaeologist. Skills and experience in statutory processes and resource management required .A post graduate qualification in NZ Archaeology is essential.Applications close 25 August 2004.
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'Haunted' land wrangle back in court
Few people would cast a second glance at a block of land at 506-508 Rolleston St on the northern side of Thames' centre.
But court testimony - including claims of supernatural events in houses surrounding the property - has revealed a wider history of land confiscation and development battles, due to be outlined in the High Court at Auckland today.
Ngati Maru has been trying to stop development work on the site since 1996, taking its claims through the Environment Court and High Court. "
The tribe claims the land was formerly a pa site for the tribe whose ancestral lands once stretched from Mahurangi to Katikati.
Mr Taipari complained about the development so by May 1996, the Historic Places Trust stepped in, finding a midden on the site.
But it assessed the artefact as being of low archaeological value and allowed its destruction. That was appealed by Ngati Maru to the Environment Court, which sat for four days in June and July 1997, but dismissed the case.


Tuesday, July 27, 2004

 
Moriori recall myths at signing
Most New Zealanders sadly still cling to outdated myths about Moriori and some schools still teach them despite historical evidence to the contrary, Moriori claimants said yesterday.
A small group of representatives gathered at Parliament yesterday to mark the signing of terms of negotiation with Treaty Negotiations Minister Margaret Wilson for the settlements of the Moriori claim. "

Thursday, July 22, 2004

 
Trash stash portrait of society
Celebrities, rubbish and art. These three words could perhaps combine so seamlessly only in New York, where an exhibition has opened featuring works made of rubbish salvaged from the trash cans of Hollywood actors, pop stars and politicians.
The so-called Star Trash Store in SoHo displays the work of two French photographers, Pascal Rostain and Bruno Mouron, who have spent 15 years rummaging through the rubbish of the rich and famous.
Their simple technique is to gather a selection of items, arrange them on a black velvet background and photograph the result. The photographs sell for US$6000 ($9150).
The photographers insist they are journalists rather than artists. 'For us it is sociology and archaeology,' Rostain said.

- for collectors who 'know nothing about archaeology - but know what they like'.

Monday, July 19, 2004

 
First Antarctica painting on show
The first painting of Antarctica, which has been hidden under another painting for the last 200 years, is going on public view in London.
The painting was the work of artist William Hodges, who joined Captain Cook's second epic voyage in 1772.
The oil painting, later painted over with a view of a New Zealand harbour, is one of 80 Hodges' paintings on show at the National Maritime Museum. "

Friday, July 16, 2004

 
Workshop Programme
National Historic Heritage Workshop Engineering Heritage, Wellington
3-5 August 2004

 
Southland Museum
Collection Management Policy - new NZAA electronic publication. Word download.

Tuesday, July 13, 2004

 
New DOC electronic publication
Predicting archaeological sites in New Zealand
DOC SCIENCE INTERNAL SERIES 180 Greg Arnold, Peter Newsome, and Hamish Heke
pdf download 371 KB

Monday, July 12, 2004

 
Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology
AIMA/ASHA Conference
Wellington-Picton, New Zealand
24-27 September 2004
“Gold, Wars and Whaling - trans-Tasman connections”
The conference will be in two locations: Wellington and Picton. Conference attendees will travel to Picton by ferry from Wellington part way through the conference.

 
Site Survey Reports in the NZAA Cental File library
Tony Walton. NZAA electronic publication. Excel spreadsheet download 310K

Friday, July 09, 2004

 
Aus: World listing for city's treasure
Melbourne's Royal Exhibition Building has become Australia's first building to win World Heritage status.
The surprise decision, made in China late yesterday by the UNESCO World Heritage Committee, gives legal protection to the building - the site of the first Australian Parliament in 1901 - and the surrounding Carlton Gardens.
Federal Environment and Heritage Minister David Kemp said the listing was great for Australia. 'It's an enormous achievement and it's going to attract a great deal of attention from international visitors... this is going to be a unique piece of world heritage here in Melbourne.'

And NZ's progress on new lisitngs is .........? There are none currently nominated.

Thursday, July 08, 2004

 
Oops - the Auckland Uni Archaeological Society talks advertised in the last issue were three years ago! Now I know archaeogists are nostalgic for old things, but old info on web sites is not quite it.

Wednesday, July 07, 2004

 
New electronic publicaiton on the NZAA site - publication list
Tony Walton: Site Survey Reports in the DOC library (Excel spreadsheet download)

 
Employment OfferedNew listing on NZAA page (Auckland based).

 
Serebella: Science -New Zealand
Website guide to NZ archaeology

Tuesday, July 06, 2004

 
Wreck of mysterious polar ship to become state preserve. NZ link
PENSACOLA, Fla. - The wreck of a tramp steamer that helped Adm. Richard Byrd explore the Antarctic but later sank under mysterious circumstances off the Florida Panhandle is the state's newest underwater archaeological preserve."

Monday, July 05, 2004

 
Council's secret Maori pact stings citizens
In a move with nationwide implications, Manukau City Council has rejected a bold bid to loosen a Maori stranglehold on resource consent vetting.
Councillors backed off a bid that would have removed a contentious cloak of secrecy from land information memorandum (LIM) reports, opened up a Maori "veto" to public scrutiny and stymied "koha" corruption payments.
The rejected plan would have prised open secret council files on the locations of so-called Maori waahi tapu archaeological sites and require them to be included for the first time on (LIM) reports.
It would have also forced a review of a special deal which gives local iwi groups Ngai Tai Ki Umupuia and Ngai Tai Ki Umupuia Totara Trust exclusive access to all Manukau's resource consent applications, including confidential commercial information.

Friday, July 02, 2004

 
VALUING OUR PLACE…can you help?
How do we value our historic and cultural heritage? Is it done fairly and how much do we care about it?
If you are willing to participate in a short, anonymous survey on these issues for my doctoral thesis, then I would really appreciate hearing from you.
Please contact me at: cloud9@pl.net or phone: (09) 817 1116

Sara Donaghey
Dept. of Management & International Business
Albany Campus
Massey University
Private Bag 102 904
North Shore Mail Centre
Auckland


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