

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...
MD & YM
Aug 23, 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 16, 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...
IJ
Aug 9, 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...
MD
Aug 2, 2019


132: Exploring Waitaha
This first post on Waitaha is a very brief look, just to ask some questions. It's complied off various sources and in some cases those...
MD & IJ
Jul 26, 2019


Sidestep: Ancient drains of Kaiatia
The first article we produced on old drains was in 2016. You can read it here: http://tangatawhenua16.wixsite.com/the-first-ones-blog/sin...
IJ & YM
Jul 19, 2019


131: Great Barrier Island giants (2)
Incidentally, this is our 250th article on this website. Way back in 2016 we did an article based on the newspaper report about the...
IJ
Jul 12, 2019


Sidestep: The Maero - NZ's bigfoot
There was an article in Stuff last week about Marc Coppell, a paranormal investigator from Auckland about to try to find our own NZ...
MD
Jul 5, 2019


130: Dig Update
The most recent digs (17 & 18) occurred once again with a team of five. This time the progress was down what I've called '7 mile' (a long...
MD & IJ
Jun 28, 2019


Sidestep: Melanesians were here first
The headline suggests we are sure, but we aren't (I was just pretending to be a NZ journalist using inaccurate bait click headlines)....
IJ
Jun 21, 2019