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University of Auckland Archaeology

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The University of Auckland has long taught archaeology as part of its anthropology department.

University of Auckland Archaeology page

The student society, Archsoc is open to anyone inside the university or not. It is reputedly the oldest society on campus - which is of course appropriate.

Current archaeologists on staff include:

Professors:

• Emeritus Professor Geoff Irwin FRSNZ, Hon. Fellow Soc. Antiquaries (Lon.): Oceanic and New Zealand archaeology.
• Professor Simon Holdaway: Australian, New Zealand and Palaeolithic archaeology, stone artefact analysis, theory and GIS. Current Head of Department.

Associate Professors:

• Associate Professor Harry Allen ONZM: New Zealand, Australian and South East Asian archaeology, and cultural resource management. Coordinator for Museums and Cultural Heritage Programme.
• Associate Professor Melinda Allen: Oceanic prehistory, paleoenvironmental studies, marine zooarchaeology, human ecology.
• Associate Professor Thegn Ladefoged: Oceanic prehistory, socio-political transformation, agricultural development, GIS.
• Associate Professor Judith Littleton, Human osteology and health, fieldwork in Middle East, Australia and New Zealand. Current Deputy Head of Department.
• Associate Professor Peter Sheppard: Melanesia, Solomon Islands, processes of social transformation, geoarchaeology. Current Director for the Centre for Archaeological Research.

Lecturers:

• Dr Marianne Turner: Experiemental replication, Maori material culture, lithic technology and production systems, the settlement of Polynesia and New Zealand, early Maori settlement patterns, mechanisms of communication and exchange, New Zealand historic archaeology, historic bottle analysis, Pitcairn Island, early Maori settlement on the Waikato coast. Current convenor of annual field schools.

Research fellors/technicians:

• Dilys Johns: Conservation, wet organic archaeological materials, wetland archaeological sites.
• Dr Rod Wallace: charcoal.

Past staff members include:

• Emeritus Professor Roger Green ONZM, FRSNZ, member Nat. Acad. Sci.(USA), Hon. Fellow Soc. Antiquaries (Lon.)
• Professor Lisa Matisoo-Smith: Biological Anthropology specialising in Pacific Prehistory (now at University of Otago).
• Professor Peter Bellwood
• Dr Richard Cassels
• Lady Aileen Fox
• Professor Jack Golson
• Dr Les Groube
• Wilfred Shawcross
• Dr Rod Clough

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