IJ
Oct 4, 2019
137: Dig update
Well, the last one certainly was interesting. The walk through the hills nearly killed me after an early winter of illness. Still, we...
IJ & YM
Sep 28, 2019
Sidestep: Cannibalism revealed in the middens
Cannibalism. We know it occurred here, but when did it start in Aotearoa and why? Thousands of years ago...or more recently? We wondered...
MD
Sep 20, 2019
136: Who really are the indigenous people of NZ?
Since 2016 we suggested in various articles, that when Polynesians first arrived they found scattered groups already here. Most of that...
MD
Sep 13, 2019
Sidestep: Te Toto Gorge
Near Raglan there is a cave holding 8' plus skeletons. That cave is linked to the petroglyphs on the rocks there. When those petroglyphs...
IJ
Sep 6, 2019
135: Dig Progression
We said in the last post that those following us for a while would have seen our progress. For those who haven't, or are too lazy to...
YM & MD
Aug 30, 2019
Sidestep: Grave robbers...
We have finally been openly labelled as grave robbers by someone on the internet. This is both good and bad. Bad - because it reveals the...
MD & YM
Aug 23, 2019
134: Petroglyph evidence
I was sent a picture of a petroglyph in Tasman Bay. This rocks location is being kept secret as iwi want to protect it, and the site...
IJ
Aug 16, 2019
Sidestep: Mauku's Ancient Weapon
Is this another Melanesian style oddity? I know we keep on banging on about Melanesia lately, and there is a reason for that, but bear...
IJ
Aug 9, 2019
133: Dig Update
Dig 19 was one were '7 mile' continued to be excavated. It was a single day dig, the first single day dig since February, but this time...
MD
Aug 2, 2019
Sidestep: Lapita
The Lapita people arrived in the Pacific around 1500BC to 1000BC. We know they came from Asia as DNA tells us so. In fact they came from...