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Friday, December 13, 2019
Archaeology Week 2020 reminder and website details
Archaeology Week 2020 is from 24 April to 3 May and a number of events are already in progress around the country.
As New Zealand Archaeology Week events are planned and finalised, I will start putting them on the NZAA Archaeology Week page, which is now live. The website, as well as past Archaeology Week events, can be viewed at https://nzarchaeology.org/news-events/national-archaeology-week .
The hashtag for New Zealand Archaeology Week 2020 will be #NZArchaeologyWeek2020. Please use this when posting or referencing events on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter or any other social media platforms you may use.
Area-coordinators are now in place in Auckland, Hawke’s Bay, Wellington, Christchurch and Dunedin. Please contact your local area-coordinator for any local query and/or information. If there is no area-coordinator for your area please feel free to contact me.
People who have kindly stepped forward to help facilitate New Zealand Archaeology Week events are
Auckland: Sam Kumann- samkurmann@hotmail.com
Thames: David Wilton - D.R.Wilton@massey.ac.nz
Hawke’s Bay: Elizabeth Pishief - elizabeth.pishief@heritageservices.nz
Wellington: Mary O'Keeffe - mary@heritagesolutions.net.nz
Christchurch: Gwen Jackson - gjackson@heritage.org.nz
Dunedin: Victoria Ross and Arthur Grainger - victoria@heritageproperties.co.nz and
arthurgrainger1995@gmail.com
The New Zealand Archaeological Association has some funds available to assist organisations with the costs associated with running Archaeology Week events, such as printing costs, venue hire, etc. Please submit funding applications to secretary@nzarchaeology.org by 31 March 2020. Applications should include a short description of your event and a description of the costs for which funding is sought. Applicants will be notified whether or not their application has been successful the following week.
Please contact me at archaeologyweek@nzarchaeology.org for more information or to discuss possible events and/or interest in New Zealand Archaeology Week 2020.
Nga Mihi
Kathryn Hurren
NZAA New Zealand Archaeology Week Coordinator
Pictures of human-like hunters and fleeing mammals dated to nearly 44,000 years old
Cave art depicting human-animal hybrid figures hunting warty pigs and dwarf buffaloes has been dated to nearly 44,000 years old, making it the earliest known cave art by our species.
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2019/dec/11/earliest-known-cave-art-by-modern-humans-found-in-indonesia
Tough as old boots: a Thames skeleton's durable footwear
Archaeologists say man who died 500 years ago may have been a mudlark or fisherman
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/dec/04/tough-as-old-boots-a-thames-skeletons-durable-footwear-tideway-tunnel
New Edition Terra Australis
Stuart Bedford and Matthew Spriggs (eds) Debating Lapita: Distribution, chronology, society and subsistence. Terra Australis 52. ANU Press.
This volume comprises 23 chapters that focus on the archaeology of Lapita, a cultural horizon
associated with the founding populations who first colonised much of the south west Pacific some 3000 years ago. The Lapita culture has been most clearly defined by its distinctive dentate-stamped decorated pottery and the design system represented on it and on further incised pots. Modern research now encompasses a whole range of aspects associated with Lapita and this is reflected in this volume. The broad overlapping themes of the volume—Lapita distribution and chronology, society and subsistence—relate to research questions that have long been debated in relation
to Lapita.
Download for free or order a copy at this link: http://doi.org/10.22459/TA52.2019
The Urban Development Bill is designed to give the new housing agency, Kāinga Ora - Homes and Communities, the power to speed up the development of large urban development projects.
“Kāinga Ora has to seek recommendations from Heritage New Zealand on the protection of heritage values for a proposed project area.|“
Ed: Sounds like the National Development Act 1979 all over again. "Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."
An exceptional Gravettian "Venus," some 23,000-years-old
http://artdaily.com/news/118962/An-exceptional-Gravettian--Venus---some-23-000-years-old--was-discovered-by-Inrap?fbclid=IwAR2pZRrKm6odo-WfBUxMIhfkkohslTe__T-yXlvJYeMHL_fBaRnv5GYg92w#.Xe2QKIhMTIX
German Ship Sunk During World War I Discovered
Archaeology
The ship was part of Germany's East Asia Squadron, which mainly operated in the Pacific Ocean before the outbreak of World War I. On November 1, ...
The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) is a major grant-giving programme that supports research on material knowledge systems that are under threat and in danger of disappearing. This includes knowledge systems associated with the making, use, repair and re-purposing of material objects, spaces, architecture, performances and environments.
The programme's objective is to preserve the knowledge in perpetuity through an open access, digital repository. Scholars from across the world are invited to apply for funding to spend time with communities and recording practices using a range of digital formats. Scholars can apply for a small grant, which is awarded for up to one year and with a maximum budget of £15,000, or a large grant, awarded for up to two years with a maximum budget of £70,000. Applications close at midnight GMT on the 15th January 2020. Further details about EMKP and the grant can be found at www.emkp.org
Carvings that survived Tarawera eruption step closer to returning home
New Zealand Herald
A Te Arawa treasure is a step closer to retuning home from England. Heritage New Zealand Pouhere Taonga said today it was delighted with the ...
Te Wharekaniwha descendents 'kept in dark' over return of carvings
RNZ
Heritage New Zealand has negotiated with the Guildford Borough Council and the Secretary of State for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, ...
Celebrating 200 years past and future
Rural News Group
Remarkably, Marsden profoundly noted in his diary, "New Zealand promises to be very favourable to the vine, as far as I can judge at present of the nature of the soil and climate. Should the vine succeed, it will prove of vast importance in this part of the globe."
BRITISH MUSEUM ANCIENT GREEKS EXHIBITION COMING TO AUCKLAND
We are bringing the major international exhibition Ancient Greeks: Athletes, Warriors and Heroes exclusively to Auckland next July 2020.
Drawn from the British Museum's world-renowned collection of the Ancient Greek world, the exhibition will feature more than 170 objects, the largest selection of ancient artefacts ever loaned by the British Museum to New Zealand.
https://www.aucklandmuseum.com/visit/exhibitions/ancient-greeks?utm_source=wordfly&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=What%27sOn5November&utm_content=version_A
Australian Archaeology Skills Passport
http://www.bajrfed.co.uk/bajrpress/the-australian-archaeology-skills-passport/?fbclid=IwAR1fVsRE0r-wkK-d1unWeRdSu-I7zFhLxAMblUbIzYo1zuRjQJA7vvV4yU4
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