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    Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago

    Obsidian blades with food traces reveal 1st settlers of Rapa Nui had regular contact with South Americans 1,000 years ago

    The earliest settlers of Rapa Nui, also known as Easter Island, appear to have had some sort of contact with people from South America as early as …

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    Tongan site dates oldest in Polynesia — thecoconet.tv - The world’s largest hub of Pacific Island content.uu

    A small fishing village established 2900 years ago in Tonga has been confirmed as the first settlement in Polynesia. Source: Stuff Using pottery …

  • https://blog.tepapa.govt.nz/2019/08/01/digitising-theo-schoons-photographs-of-maori-rock-art/?fbclid=IwAR12Age6LBIdelvK_UTzg4u-7I1fWI3EiWDxLG11ptn8gV0s-HrgvYbu5Ew_aem_AYRWZJB1wkGekmUGv5plxOIfX0a6UiLqCIkktf4fj4Tza0MhyjYY8j6TfUEBpcPt9fg&cn-reloaded=1&cn-reloaded=1

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    Digitising Theo Schoon’s photographs of Māori rock art | Te Papa’s Blog

    Digitising Theo Schoon’s photographs of Māori rock art | Te Papa’s Blog

    Intern Tim Fortescue-Willis has spent the last six weeks cataloguing and digitising Theo Schoon’s photographs of Māori rock art. Tim describes his …

  • Wallace Raymond Ambrose, 25 July 1933 – 9 January 2024

    Wal Ambrose, one of the great characters of Pacific archaeology, has died. He began his archaeological career with Jack Golson in NZ in 1954 and joined Jack at the ANU in 1963, to set up an archaeological conservation lab. He remained a stalwart of the Department of Prehistory, in the Research School of Pacific Studies, and after that department disappeared in the late 90s, he continued active research for another 20 years. He worked with Jack during the 1950s on excavations in NZ, and in Tonga, Samoa and New Caledonia. He was an early secretary of NZAA, editor of the early Auckland issues, and an energetic site recorder, notably of South Island rock art. In Canberra, he made pioneering and innovative contributions to the conservation of archaeological materials, especially wet wood, to the sourcing and dating of obsidian, and to archaeological field research, especially in Papua New Guinea. Wal 1967 Wal was an esteemed and valued colleague and mentored numerous PhD students over more than five decades. In a 1997 tribute, Jack Golson described his friend as an archaeological boffin. He borrowed a comment from noted Australian commentator Phillip Adams, about another Australian luminary, that Wal was inclined to hide his light under other people’s bushels. He was a person of remarkable talents: he repeatedly reinvented the light, and reanalysed the bushels. As his obituary notice said, he was “an archaeologist, inventor, artist, photographer, builder, wine connoisseur, and cricket and tennis tragic” With his family, we mourn his loss.

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