Those of the Chatham Islands seems to have a distinctive shape of club more akin to that from Peru. None were made of pounamu (jade) and...

Pacific Voyages Water crossing by modern humans People living in Near Oceania had highly developed artistic and linguistic abilities, as...

I'm often skeptical of people seeing things in every rock that hasn't got a smooth surface. I might need counceling! But in all...

The Wairau Bar is a gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New...

We've all heard the name Waitaha. Some say they were here before Maori and were a group of many pre-Polynesian ancients. Regardless,...

On 19th March we posted up a drawing of an artefact found on Chatham Island (Rekohu). The item was unusual but the pattern on it...

An unexpected historical find in 2013 has highlighted the efforts of a documentary-making dive team where a member of the team discovered...

Okiwi Bay is in the news recently and it reminded me to post up this unusual 'patu'. Marlborough Sounds have been the source of some very...

You've all seen WALL.E, that adorable little robot character from the movies... Well, now meet RODN.E our new deep dirt reconnaissance...

It's official - this is going to take much longer. Around the bend we were aiming for, we can now see...damn it - more dirt! When this is...