A learned kaumatua of the Ngai-Tahu tribe, at Rapaki, Canterbury, provided this traditional information concerning the successive iwi or...

(This is article #316 since we started in Jan 2016) Many may know of this stone found in Northland. It was said, by some, to be an...

Just to explore something new, here are three photos showing bone colour of the femur portion we found that came in with the fill from...

We mentioned a few years back, a case in the South Island where a chief sold a huge parcel of land on the West Coast to Europeans that...

Maori spirals had their origin in the Pacific right? Actually, no they didn't. The reason being is that there isn't any. So where did...

I finally got around to listening to some debate about our earlier dig location that resulted from the RNZ article earlier in the year,...

I was researching what the old name for Dunedin was. It turns out it is Ōtepoti. Otepoti is said to mean ‘a corner of the harbour’ - due...

There has been a lot in the news about Colonialism and slavery lately. Europe, India, China, Iran, Korea, Arabia, Spain, Germany, Hawaii,...

Where did the Maori patu come from? There was no such club in the Pacific Islands. We have long said the patu was something the...

New Zealand nearly ended up French – half of it anyway. In 1838 French whaling captain Jean Langlois bought most of Banks Peninsula, just...