The Ghost of a young prostitute Locals know that Room 1 of the old Vulcan Hotel, in the tiny village (permanent population …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Immolation of Waimate Bush, Canterbury, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the court case following the 1878 fire that virtually annihilated Waimate Bush, a witness described the wind conditions as “a hurricane” …
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Biogeography & Vegetation
The Lost Taieri/Taiari Bush, near Dunedin, New Zealand
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleLeads to New Zealand’s ‘lost forests’ turn up in all sorts of places. I was in the Dunedin Public Library when I …
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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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Archaeology, History & Culture
A Crimean Gothic Woman from the Seventh Century
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleCrimea, 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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Archaeology, History & Culture
The mid 7th-century Gaponovo Costume of Russia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn 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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Archaeology, History & Culture
The Sixth-Century Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, Austria
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleAn 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 …