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 …
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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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Archaeology, History & Culture
1066 and the Dead Parrot (The weird things going on in the margins of the Bayeux Tapestry)
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI 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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Climate & Earth Systems
Bob Carter, Greenhouse Warming, and One Alarmed Palaeontologist
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleI 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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Climate & Earth Systems
How to Thoroughly Confuse Everyone about Prescribed Burning in Australia
by Mike Poleby Mike PoleIn the last couple of days, something of a ‘blue’ has developed among some Western Australian fire experts over ‘Prescribed Burning’ – …