The appearance in the roots of a coastal tree, of a bell with Tamil lettering, is no direct indication at all that Tamilians went...

Academics do not believe that anyone from South or North American continents travelled into the Pacific. That may indeed be true of the...

At some stage, about 2000 years before the birth of Christ, a canoe load of adventurous “Lapita” sailors either deliberately set out to...

At some stage, about 4000 years ago, a canoe load of adventurous “Lapita” sailors either deliberately set out to the east or were driven...

Merry Christmas I was thinking about the perforated tooth I found in the far north many years ago, associated with a burial that was...

Fabian Gottlieb Benjamin von Bellingshausen came from a landowning family of Baltic Germans with a tradition of service to the Russian...

All the official evidence is that Polynesians got to NZ first. Most artifacts shown in museums seem to support this and it is very clear...

Imagine what a LiDAR survey of the entire country could reveal. Especially in Kaiatia, the Waikato coastline, parts of the Taranaki...

Colyers Island exists in the Bluff harbour and was a primary source of argillite for adze manufacture from 1300 -1500. There are several...

Chartered in 1602 and granted a monopoly over trade with the East Indies by the Dutch government, the Dutch East India Company (VOC)...