One of the beauties of modern archaeological technique is the ability to analyse ancient battle, or massacre sites, in a forensic way. …

When humans arrived in New Zealand, a bit over 700 years ago (Wilmshurst et al., 2008; Jacomb et al., 2014), it seems …

Amateur field observations of species can be priceless. A local Dunedin man (Peter Thomson, 1823-1879), using the pen-name ‘Pakeha’, wrote several accounts …

Green Island Bush is a prime example of a large patch of New Zealand indigenous forest that was essentially annihilated in the …

One part of Dunedin is different from the rest…. The Dunedin area is an old volcano. It’s formed mostly from the molten, …

In 2007, I started work in Mongolia as a geologist with the company, Gobi Coal and Energy Limited. The Chairman was Mohammed …

How old is the oldest cultural feature on Aotearoa-New Zealand? Imagine being around when the only way to get anywhere was to …

Today is the three-year anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022. On that day, pandemonium struck. People fled with a …

Rivers, big rivers. They can be political borders – think of the Rhine – when it marked the ‘civilised’ Roman Empire to …

When a forest is dead, but somehow still there – either as bleached stumps, and felled, and possibly burnt trunks, I call …