

Historical: The Musket Wars (Maori vs Maori)
Before the wars with Europeans over grievances regarding confiscated land, there was a much larger and longer running war involving...
IJ
Aug 4, 2018


110: Kaiatia's early inhabitants were likely Melanesian
Kaiatia carving styles around the pacific. If you consider the end figures or manaia might represent some long forgotten image of a...
MD
Jul 28, 2018


Historical: The Maori Wars (Maori vs Pakeha)
This, and the following article on 21st July, have nothing to do with our purpose of finding the rumoured tall skeletons lying in a cave...
MD
Jul 21, 2018


109: Dig Update
These updates are not necessarily published on or near the dates the digs occurred, but yes, they continue slowly. Kūwaha Tāwhetaana is a...
IJ
Jul 14, 2018


Historical: The Boyd Massacre
Read this link first: https://www.stuff.co.nz/business/industries/96913242/an-early-massacre-seen-from-two-different-perspectives...
MD
Jul 7, 2018


108: Is this NZ's most important unheralded artefact?
Many of the artefacts and items shown on this website since 2016, were unknown to many NZers before seeing them presented here. They were...
IJ
Jun 30, 2018


Sidestep: An unusual stone object
Mr. L. J. B. Chapple, of Wanganui, describes as follows an unusual object in stone which recently came into his possession in 1937: A...
MD
Jun 20, 2018


107: The mysterious relics of Pelorus
On 10th May 2018 we mentioned the Marlborough Sounds unusual artefacts and mentioned some odd shaped stones. This will expand on those...
MD
Jun 10, 2018


Sidestep: Stumped for answers
From the Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of NZ - Vol7 1874 An exceedingly interesting relic of the very remote past is...
IJ and MD
May 30, 2018


106: The Muruwai Boomerang
ON the 29th of November, 1925, Mr. A. W. B. Powell, of Auckland, was searching among the Maori kitchen middens at Muriwai Beach on the...
MD
May 20, 2018