

Revisited: Understanding Ownership
Being election day and in light of the debate on land compensation and water ownership going on presently, we reproduce an article from...
MD
Sep 23, 2017


Sidestep: The First One
Below is a reproduction of our very first numbered post on this website. Little did we know we would find the location of other sites...
IJ
Sep 15, 2017


98: Ngutu-au - Ancient visitors to Aotearoa
Below is an extract from a tale gained by a George Graham well before 1905 (when the account was first published). The information came...
MD
Aug 29, 2017


Sidestep: A Grim History
Whilst it is well known that some preserved heads were stolen, and many articles appear about the "grim history of NZ’s stolen heads", it...
MD
Aug 12, 2017


97: The Mikonui artefact
Continuing in the revealing of unusual items found in NZ that are non-Maori in origin, we present the following. There is much in common...
IJ
Jul 26, 2017


Sidestep: The Stone Bowls
In the 1930's on the upper slopes of Mt. Olympus, Marlborough (foreground above) there was found a stone bowl measuring ten inches in...
IJ
Jul 9, 2017


96: The Melanesian link
Who migrated here first? When we ask that we do not refer to the small number of original inhabitants who were by all intents and...
IJ & MD
Jul 3, 2017


Sidestep: Distinguishing Artifacts from Ecofacts
How do we know when a rock is a tool? Here are some common comments and questions relating to debatable artefacts "Those look like...
MD
Jun 26, 2017


95: Evolutionary Giants
Recently we scanned through the archives of an American archaeological site using the word giant. In regard to humans, all they said was...
MD
Jun 19, 2017


Sidestep: Moriori traditions and history
This is a direct copy of an old article. It makes for intriguing reading and touches on two things that we we find most interesting,...
IJ and MD
Jun 12, 2017









































