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 …
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I met Bob Carter after one of my fossil-collecting mates, Duncan McLeod, came across some shell fossils in a ‘marl pit’ on …
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Australian EcologyClimateFireForests
How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia
In the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …
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Australian EcologyClimateFireForests
Did Queensland Rainforest Spread when Cultural Burning Stopped?
“This is the Giant Stinger tree – avoid it”. Work place health and safety now out of the way, I could then …
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Broken River is a Hell of a place to get to. From Christchurch you need to head inland, driving along the road …
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Have you noticed? Despite Australia’s on-going fire disaster, there are no shortage of reports telling us to … relax – it’s nothing …