McCulloch Bev

Beverley (Bev) Anne McCulloch 1934-2006

Bev McCulloch was born in Auckland but spent most of her life as a Christchurch resident. Bev took up archaeology as an adult joining the Canterbury Museum Archaeological Society after experiencing evidence in the field of the past occupation of the Marlborough Sounds while on family holidays.

Her early interest was in rock art which she undertook in conjuction with museum ethnologist Michael Trotter. Their joint publication on this was in 1971, The Prehistoric Rock Art of New Zealand.

She had some disagreements with then Museum Director Roger Duff over pursuing independent research. It was not in Beverley's character to toe lines and the opposition was if anything a spur to her research. Michael Trotter was her partner in much of this work - and a personal one as well.

She undertook a science degree at Canterbury University as an adult student. Bev took up employment with the DSIR as an illustrator. She shifted from there to be a liaison officer and the curator of subfossil birds at the Canterbury Museum.

Museum archaeological fieldwork resulted in a number of booklets authored by Bev for popular consumption and for distribution to the members of the public and landowners. She produced these for the fieldwork projects she was involved in, Kaikoura, Clarence Bridge and Takahanga.

Her major archaeological publishing achievement was hers and Michael's 1989 Unearthing New Zealand. It has introduced many New Zealanders to local archaeology. Extinct animals of New Zealand were also the subjects a series of books, some including archaeology.

Consulting in archaeology took up some of her energy after leaving Canterbury Museum. A series of articles in AINZ resulted from this.

In retirement she pursued an interest in rare animal breeds on a farmlet at Tuahiwi in North Canterbury venturing with Michael into website publication www.rarebreeds.co.nz.

Obituary: 2006 Archaeology in New Zealand 49(3):157-160.

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Bibliography

1968 Interim Report on an Archaeological Survey of the Weka Pass Area. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 11(2): 76-85.

1969 Recent Rock Shelter Investigations in North Otago. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 12(3): 124-140.

1971 Prehistoric Rock Art of New Zealand. [With Michael Trotter] A. H. & A. W. Reed, Wellington. (87 pages.)

1973 A Relevant Radiocarbon Result. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 16(3): l28-32.

1973 Radiocarbon Dates for South Island Rock Shelters. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 16(4): 176-178.

1975 The First Twenty Years: Radiocarbon Dates for South Island Moa-hunter Sites 1955-74. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 18(1): 2-17. (Also published under separate cover by the authors.)

1978 Some Radiocarbon Dates for Moa Remains from Natural Deposits. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics 22(2): 277-279.

1979 Prehistory at Clarence Bridge. [With Michael Trotter] Kaikoura Coastal Reserves Board. (22 pages.)

1980 Excavations at Takahanga Pa, Kaikoura: a Preliminary Report. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 23(2): 67-68.

1981a Takahanga Pa 1980. New Zealand Historic Places Trust and Canterbury Museum. [With Michael Trotter] (29 pages.)

1981b Takahanga Pa 1980. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Historic Places Trust. (29 pages.)

1981c Prehistoric Rock Art of New Zealand. [With Michael Trotter] (2nd edition.) Longman Paul, Auckland. (88 pages.)

1981d The Diet of Moas, Based on Gizzard Contents Samples from Pyramid Valley, North Canterbury, and Scaifes Lagoon, Lake Wanaka, Otago [with C. J. Burrows and Michael Trotter]. Records of the Canterbury Museum 9(6):309-336.

1982a No Moa. Some thoughts on the life and death of New Zealand's most spectacular bird. Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. (Reprinted 1984, 1985, 1987, 1993 (with revisions); Japanese version 1990.)

1982b Takahanga l982. New Zealand Historic Places Trust Report.

1982c Onawe: Historical Research. New Zealand Historic Places Trust Report.

1983a How Big is a Moa Egg? New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 26(4): 271-73.

1983b Maori Rock Art. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Historic Places Trust “Beneath Our Feet” series, 4.

1984a Moas, Men and Middens. [With Michael Trotter] In Quaternary Extinctions, edited by Paul Martin and Richard Klein, University of Arizona.

1984b Prehistoric New Zealand and its People. Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. (Reprinted 1989.)

1984c Investigations at Takahanga Pa, Kaikoura, 1980, 1982. [With Michael Trotter] Records of the Canterbury Museum 9(10): 387-421.

1984d Pyramid Valley Moa Swamp. Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, Wellington.

1984e A Prehistoric Frame Pack from Inland Canterbury. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 27(3): 140-143.

1984f Bones, Bones and More Bones: Osteological Collections in the Canterbury Museum. AGMANZ News 15(3): 10-11.

1985a Pyramid Valley. Geological Society of New Zealand Newsletter 68: 25-28.

1985b First Impressions. AGMANZ Journal 16(2): 7-8.

1985c Canterbury Museum: Sponsor-a-Stone Appeal. Geological Society of New Zealand Newsletter 69, July l985.

1985d Maori Rock Drawings: A Matter of Interpretation. In Maori Rock Drawings. Theo Schoon Interpretations. Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch City Council.

1985e Canterbury Museum’s “Sponsor a Stone” Appeal. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 28(4): 203-204.

1985f Kaikoura Archaeology. Mauri Ora 12: 7-12.

1985g Don’t be an Illegal ‘Magpie’. Magpie. New Zealand Journal for Collectors, November l985.

1986a First New Zealand Dogs. New Zealand Kennel Gazette (Centennial Issue) 26(2): 9-12.

1986b Some Early European Dogs in New Zealand. New Zealand Kennel Gazette 26(4): 26-27.

1986c A Relic's Homecoming (The Kaikoura Moa Egg). Historic Places in New Zealand 15: 4-5.

1986d Immunochemical Detection and Characterisation of Osteocalcin from Moa Bone [with N. L. Huq, S. M. Rambard, L.Teh, A. D. Davies, G. E. Chapman and Michael Trotter]. Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications 129(3): 714-20.

1987a Eight articles in The Press on Canterbury Museum and Te Maori. [With Michael Trotter]

1987b The Polynesian Impact. The Banks Peninsula Landscape Report. Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, Wellington, pages 41-54.

1987c Fyffe Moa Hunter Site. [With Michael Trotter] Te Karanga 3(3).

1987d New Zealand’s First-comers: The Maori at Kaikoura. The Past Today: Historic Places in New Zealand, edited by John Wilson. Pacific Publishers/NZ Historic Places Trust, Wellington, pages l4-2l.

1987e Fish-hook Industry at Whalers Bay. [With Michael Trotter] Te Karanga 3(3).

1987f Taonga in Canterbury Museum. In Te Maori - Teachers Supplement. Christchurch Te Maori Education Committee.

1987g Julius von Haast - the man and his museum. The Press, 11 June 1987.

1987h Robulla’s Raid on Kaikoura. [With Michael Trotter] Te Karanga 3(3).

1987i One Hundred and Seventeen Years. In The Canterbury Museum Restoration Fund. Canterbury Museum.

1987j A brief guide to some prehistoric and historic sites around Kaikoura. Canterbury Museum.

1987k Places of interest around Waipara, North Canterbury. Canterbury Museum.

1987l The Polynesian Impact on the Landscape. In The Banks Peninsula Landscape. Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, Wellington.

1987m The Polynesian Impact. In The Natural and Human History of Akaroa and Counties, Selected Essays. Queen Elizabeth II National Trust, Wellington.

1987n Rewi Alley gifts to the museum kept arriving for half a century. The Press, 19 February 1987.

1988a Moncks Cave: Treasure and tragedy. Historic Places in New Zealand, Number 21, June 1988.

1988b Review of “From the Beginning: The Archaeology of the Maori”. In Historic Places in New Zealand, Number 21, June 1988.

1988c The Human Impact. In Prehistoric New Zealand [Graeme Stevens, principal author], Heinemann Reed, Auckland.

1989a Historical Records or Archaeological Facts? – The Withells Road Cemetery. [With Michael Trotter] New Zealand Journal of Archaeology 11: 5-22.

1989b An occurrence of "moissanite" (sic) from Seddonville, West Coast, New Zealand [with K. A. Rodgers, S. Courtney, R. Sims and R. Seeyle]. New Zealand Natural Sciences 16.

1989c Review of Digging Dinosaurs. The Press, 17 June 1989.

1989d The Great Murchison Upheaval. The Press, 17 June 1989.

1989e A Cabinet of Curiosities. The Press, 22 December 1989.

1989f Review of Prodigious Birds. The Press, 31 March 1989.

1989g Welcome to Canterbury Museum. Canterbury Museum Information Series, No 12.

1989h Treasure of Treasure Downs: The Cheviot Moa Swamp. Information pamphlet for Cheviot Museum.

1989i History makers rest despite subsidence. The Press, 2 March 1989.

1989j Unearthing New Zealand. [With Michael Trotter] Government Printing Office, Wellington . (128 pages.)

1990 The Art of the Maori in Tovypoenammu [with Chris Jacomb and Michael Trotter]. In A Canterbury Perspective. Robert McDougall Art Gallery.

1991a A probable occurrence of the New Zealand Owlet Nightjar (Megaegotheles novaezealandiae) in association with human activity. Notornis.

1991b 19th-century whitewash likely product of Ward lime kilns. The Press, 27 August 1991.

1991c The Fyffe Historic Precinct, Kaikoura. [With Michael Trotter] Canterbury Museum.

1992a Moas, Lost Giants of New Zealand. [Illustrated by Geoffrey Cox] HarperCollins, Auckland. (64 pages.)

1992b Unique, dark olive-green moa eggshell from Redcliffe Hill, Rakaia Gorge, Canterbury. Notornis 39(1):63.

1993a Fyffe's Revisited. [With Michael Trotter] Records of the Canterbury Museum 10(7):73-94.

1993b The Waiopuka Woolshed. [With Michael Trotter] Records of the Canterbury Museum 10(9):107-116.

1993c Nga Moa: Nga manu wehi o Aotearoa. (Moas: the terrible birds of New Zealand.) Alpha 85, SIR Publishing, Wellington.

1995 A Whale of a Tale. The extraordinary story of Canterbury Museum’s blue whale skeleton. Canterbury Museum, Christchurch. (28 pages.)

1997a The Investigation of Historic Lime-kilns at Ward, Marlborough. [With Michael Trotter] Records of the Canterbury Museum 11: 53-64.

1997b Digging up the Past - New Zealand’s Archaeological History. [With Michael Trotter] Viking, Penguin Books (New Zealand) Ltd., Auckland.

1998a Preliminary Report on the investigation of an early European House Site at Cust, North Canterbury. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 41(2): 114-122.

1998b The Lost Pa of Kaikoura. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 41(3): 199-204.

1998c The Onawe Fish Trap. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 41(4): 279-283.

1998d Tirohanga to Okarahia. Roadside Archaeology in the Kaikoura District. [With Michael Trotter] Transit New Zealand, Christchurch.

1998e Archaeological and Historical investigations of Onawe Pa, Akaroa Harbour, Banks Peninsula. [With Michael Trotter.] Records of the Canterbury Museum, 12 (2): 83-110.

1999a Archaeology of the Fyffe Historic Area. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 42(1): 44-56.

1999b How Far South? The southern limits of kumara growing in pre-European New Zealand. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 42(2): 129-133.

1999c How Many Sites? The Clarence Complex. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 42(3): 230-237.

1999d Kaikoura Highway Site Survey. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 42(3): 238-247.

1999e Return to Lake Pukaki. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 42(4): 300-308.

1999f Impact of a planting programme on historic and archaeological sites of Quail Island, Lyttelton Harbour. [With Michael Trotter] Department of Conservation, Conservation Advisory Science Notes: 264.

2000a Preliminary report on the investigation of a second cob cottage site at Cust, North Canterbury. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 43(1): 37-48.

2000b Frenchmans Gully and Theo Schoon. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 43(2): 144-148.

2000c Two More Fish Traps from Banks Peninsula. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 43(4): 264-269.

2000d Archaeological and Historical sites of Quail Island and King Billy Island, Lyttelton Harbour, Canterbury. [With Michael Trotter] Internal Report for the Canterbury Conservancy, Department of Conservation, Christchurch.

2001 Once Were Borrowers. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 44 (3): 206-214.

2003 Archaeological Excavation of a Quarantine Station Hut Site on Quail Island, Banks Peninsula. [With Michael Trotter] Archaeology in New Zealand 46 (3): 142-150.

2004a Of Rock Art and Roger – Some personal reminiscences. Digging Into History (Archaeology in New Zealand Special Issue), pages 172-175. New Zealand Archaeological Association, Auckland.

2004b Archaeological Sites Assessment – Eastern District Sewerage Project, Waimakariri District Council. [With Michael Trotter] Report to the Waimakariri District Council.

2005 Final Results of Archaeological Fieldwork Undertaken for Waimakariri District Council as a Condition of Authority 2005/67, Kairaki Sand Dunes. [With Michael Trotter] Report to New Zealand Historic Places Trust, Wellington.

List with thanks to Michael Trotter