My Submission I thank the Environment Select Committee for the opportunity to make a submission on the Fast-track Approvals Bill – at …
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Crimea, Goths and Archaeology The indigenous people of Crimea are generally regarded as the ‘Crimean Tartars’. But Crimea has older identities than …
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A little over 700 years ago, humans finally discovered the last habitable place on Earth, Aotearoa-New Zealand (Wilmshurst et al., 2011; Mulrooney …
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In the mid 7th-century someone wrapped 411 objects in a cloth, and buried them in a pit, near what is now the …
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The Musket Wars? Shortly after Europeans began operating in Aotearoa-New Zealand (c. 1807-1837), a series of conflicts among the indigenous Maori dramatically …
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An elite woman who read ‘Migration Woman Vogue’. In January 1910, gold jewellery and bones were accidentally uncovered near the village of …
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An academic asks ChatGPT about New Zealand’s Miocene Manuherikia Group Your narrator dips his toes into this ChatGPT thing With a nod …
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Bleached moa bones projected out from the steep bank of the nearly dry gully. This was exciting, as there were clearly several …
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History/Archaeology
1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
I like to see things for myself. It can give me a sense of place or scale that one doesn’t get from …
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What’s a guy to do during lock-down? I’ve chosen to time-travel back to around the first and second centuries AD. At that …