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Evening Post 7 March 1905 See at [http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz:80/cgi-bin/paperspast?a=d&srpos=55&cl=search&d=EP19050307.2.17&e=-------en--51----0archaeologist-all Papers Past]  
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Quotations

Quotations.jpgPithy quotations about local archaeology are welcome here - contibutions to the webmaster@archaeopedia.com.


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It was decided therefore to use the plough as a quicker method of exploring the area. Burial 19 at point 32 .... was soon located from the presence of some mandible fragments in the furrow, and burial 20 at point 33 ... from some cranium fragments and a tooth.

Roger Duff 1950 The Moa-Hunter Period of Maori Culture, page 60.


We know more about the Classic Maori than we shall know about any other phase of prehistoric New Zealand culture, because with the arrival of literate Europeans, prehistory was "caught alive".

Jack Golson 1959 Culture change in Prehistoric New Zealand. in Anthropology in the South Seas. Ed. Freeman, J. D. & Geddes, W. R. Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd., New Plymouth, page 47.


Mr. Hocken, the well-known archaeologist from Dunedin, has just completed a visit to North Auckland in connection with the New Zealand career of the Rev. Samuel Marsden, who was responsible for the introduction of the missionaries to this colony in 1814. Dr. Hocken has obtained a quantity of valuable historical matter concerning early missionary effort in New Zealand, and intends to publish a book on the subject.

Evening Post, 7 March 1905. See at Papers Past