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Contents
Summary
Site U13/4 The adjacent swamp site has the same site number but is not discussed here.
The site was carefully chosen as one likely to help elucidate the development of Maori culture. The reasons are discussed by Golson [1]
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| Square L11-12. Excavation in progress, L Birks. | Square L34. View from here to the east showing relationship to earthworks of the pa. | View down trench through double ditch feature. | Excavation of baulks N-D 28 (Miss Jackie Harding and Eleanor Crosbie) and O.P. 28 (Miss Josette Davies and Peter Henrikson) |
Auckland University Matipihi has a large sequence of photographs from this site Link. The pictures here are linked from there, the captions come from there and the pictures have links to their reference pages.
Location and Date
On the Katikati Peninsula in the Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty.
<googlemap lat="-37.516755" lon="175.971655" zoom="17">-37.516806, 175.971612, Kauri Pt Pa</googlemap>
Excavations took place in 1960-61, 1961-62 and the early 1970s.
Type
Pa site - prehistoric
Excavators
Project Directors
Archaeologists
University of Auckland Archaeological Society
Other contributing specialists
Alan Pullar, J C Schofield
Site workers
These included Les Groube, Janet Davidson, Dave Simmons, Lawrie Birks.
Artefacts
Publications
Excavation Report
Only preliminary reports have appeared.
Ambrose, W. 1962: Further Investigations at Kauri Point. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 5(1): 56–67.
Ambrose, W. n.d.: Kauri Point. Unpublished manuscript presented at New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, New Plymouth.
Golson, J. 1961a: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: conclusions and hypotheses. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 38–41.
Golson, J. 1961b: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: introduction. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 13–15.
Golson, J. 1961c: Investigations at Kauri Point, Katikati, western Bay of Plenty: the excavation. New Zealand Archaeological Association Newsletter 4(2): 17–29.
Other Papers
The chronology of the site and the adjacent swamp site was summarised by Green [2]. Law's review of the archaeology of the Bay of Plenty reviewed the evidence from the site [3] .
References
