

120: Dig Update
This was the third dig of January and was completed with 2 helpers. It took just over four hours and achieved much. It doesn't sound like...
IJ
Feb 1, 2019


Sidestep: Moa (the red feathers)
When Europeans first discovered large bird bones the Maori did not know what they were. But when told they belonged to a large flightless...
MD
Jan 25, 2019


119: Dig update
This was the second dig of January. This time we went down to widen and enlarge the tube at the next way station to it's maximum and make...
IJ
Jan 18, 2019


Sidestep: The miniature NZ Menhir
This item is one most of us have seen before. It resides the Auckland museum and is said to be a boundary or tapu marker (Pou rahui) -...
IJ
Jan 10, 2019


118: Dig Update
This dig was meant to be a big push with up to 5 helpers. Only one could make it in the end and while it slowed us down we still managed...
IJ
Jan 4, 2019


Sidestep: Bullroarers...and why this is important
The bullroarer is known to the Maori as a huhu, purorohu, turorohu, rangorango, wheorooro, and purerehua. Bull roarers are used...
IJ
Dec 21, 2018


117: Determining stature from bone length
So what if you find a skeleton in cave where it appears much larger than usual? How do you determine the height of the individual? Firstly...
IJ
Dec 7, 2018


Sidestep: Asiatic connections to Polynesian language
When the Chaldeans occupied that part of Asia which they afterwards made so famous, their Semitic language displaced that of a nation...
MD
Nov 18, 2018


116: A new way to date bones
There is now a new way of dating skeletons. We will at some point in the near future have to send some samples off for analysis for...
IJ
Oct 31, 2018


Sidestep: Why Polynesians never discovered Lord Howe Island?
I have long wondered why Polynesians did not settle on Lord Howe Island. There is no Polynesian name for this island. It was purely a...
MD
Oct 12, 2018