IJ
Feb 21, 2020
147: An unrecorded Patu
This article is from the notes of G.L Adkin and from an article written in 1957. This Patu's absence from the museum records is the most...
IJ
Feb 14, 2020
Media Addelpates
Many of you will be aware by now, because it's all over the RNZ website, Waikato Times and now also Stuff, that a journalist by the name...
IJ & MD
Feb 7, 2020
146: Dig Update
We are still somewhat surprised that, after revealing we had discovered what appeared to be fossilized human bone (which on time-line...
MD
Feb 1, 2020
Sidestep: Te Korotini
We don't normally do articles on ordinary Maori artifacts but this piece is very unusual, deserves a mention...and because it is lost....
IJ
Jan 24, 2020
145: The Ancient Tribes of Aotearoa
In an article published in 1893 by W.E Gudgeon for the Polynesian Society, he covers information rarely talked about by Maori these days...
MD & YM
Jan 18, 2020
Sidestep: Maramaratotara petroglyph site
This one of a kind site exists in a small grove of trees on Flaxmill Stream on the Coromandel Peninsula. It is more of a recumbent...
IJ
Jan 10, 2020
144: Deep Underground
The finding of Stone Implements Dozens of Feet below the Surface points back Thousands of Years. We have presented artifacts from time to...
IJ & YM
Jan 3, 2020
Sidestep: How our way of life changes our bones
From the emergence of a spiky growth at the back of some people’s skulls to the enigmatic finding that our elbows are getting narrower,...
IJ
Dec 27, 2019
143: Dig Update
The last dig was to look at the wall of natural fill that we uncovered. This fill is different to what we had been digging through and...
MD
Dec 21, 2019
Sidestep: Malden Island - Poly, Mela or Micronesian?
Malden Island (Terapukatea) is at the eastern end of the Line Islands part of Kiribati. The island is part of Micronesia bordering...