

Sidestep: Fortified Pa
Where did the Maori get the idea of defensive Pa’s. What is obvious is that they were a fighting people, but where did the idea of...
MD
Aug 15, 2016


10,000
Since the website was started in January this year when we decided to publicize what we planned to do, this site has received it's first...
IJ & MD
Aug 12, 2016


66: East - West
Read this article first. http://io9.gizmodo.com/medieval-skeleton-found-dangling-from-the-roots-of-a-fa-1730495084 In Ireland a skeleton...
IJ
Aug 9, 2016


Editorial #1: Self worth of Maori
In all the time that has occurred since I first found the cave entrance and all the things we have learned and discovered about New...
IJ
Aug 5, 2016


65: Adze shapes of the Moriori
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...
IJ
Jul 31, 2016


Sidestep: The Lapita and the Polynesians...
Pacific Voyages Water crossing by modern humans People living in Near Oceania had highly developed artistic and linguistic abilities, as...
MD
Jul 26, 2016


Sidestep: Incised Rock
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...
MD
Jul 22, 2016


64: The Wairau Bar Skeletons
The Wairau Bar is a gravel bar formed where the Wairau River meets the sea in Cloudy Bay, Marlborough, north-eastern South Island, New...
IJ
Jul 21, 2016


Sidestep: Waitaha Artefacts
We've all heard the name Waitaha. Some say they were here before Maori and were a group of many pre-Polynesian ancients. Regardless,...
IJ
Jul 17, 2016


63: Rēkohu & Rangiaotea Island artefacts
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...
IJ
Jul 14, 2016