When Europeans first discovered large bird bones the Maori did not know what they were. But when told they belonged to a large flightless...

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...

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) -...

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...

The bullroarer is known to the Maori as a huhu, purorohu, turorohu, rangorango, wheorooro, and purerehua. Bull roarers are used...

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...

When the Chaldeans occupied that part of Asia which they afterwards made so famous, their Semitic language displaced that of a nation...

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...

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...

Below is a section showing a number of Maori heads all with black hair. How, keep in mind that all 6 of the heads shown here have all...