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Archaeology, History & Culture

Archaeology, history, and culture are united here not by a single period or method, but by an interest in how people have lived in, understood, and shaped their worlds. Many of these pieces come out of a long-standing personal interest, involving travel, reading, and field observation. Material remains, dress, images, and everyday practices offer ways of reading the past that complement written sources and environmental evidence.

Posts in this category range widely in time and place, from prehistoric cave art to early and medieval archaeology. They focus on particular objects, customs, or moments, but a recurring theme is Identity.

Taken together, these posts form a personal exploration of culture.

  • Archaeology, History & Culture

    Thinking Outside the Triangle – Polynesian Origins

    by Mike Pole May 16, 2015
    by Mike Pole May 16, 2015

    New Zealand school kids, at least when I was one, were taught to draw the Polynesian triangle. It has Hawaii at the …

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    New Zealand, Middle-earth and Reality

    by Mike Pole August 8, 2014
    by Mike Pole August 8, 2014

    There was a time when I threatened myself to start teaching the ecology of Middle-earth. I helped take a couple of trips …

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    Discovering the ‘Bridge of Stone’ – the ancient route over the Kawarau River, New Zealand

    by Mike Pole May 7, 2014
    by Mike Pole May 7, 2014

    Part way along the Kawarau River between Cromwell and Queenstown (Central Otago, New Zealand) is a feature known to Maori asĀ ‘Whatatorere’ (Kaumatua …

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MikePole
  • Home
  • About me
  • Contact me
  • Categories
    • Curio Bay – New Zealand’s Jurassic Fossil Forest
    • New Zealand Geology
    • Supernatural
  • Places
    • Australia
    • Armenia
    • Bosnia
    • Brazil
    • Canary Island
    • China
    • Indonesia
    • Turkey
    • Estonia
    • France
    • Georgia
    • Germany
    • Lebanon
    • Mexico
    • Mongolia
    • Kazakhstan
    • Russia
    • Uganda
    • New Zealand
    • India
    • South Africa