Category:Historic Figures

Elsdon Best

His direct contributions to archaeology included studies of pa, shell middens and artefacts.

See Jeffrey Sissons article in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB

Craig, E W G, 1964, Man of the mist. a biography of Elsdon Best, A H and A W Reed, Wellington, is a biography.

Aileen Fox

Active in New Zealand 1973-77. See her autobiography Aileen, a pioneering archaeologist, The autobiography of Aileen Fox, 2000, Gracewing.

Mary Jeal, Mad dogs and Englishmen, Archaeological site recoriding with Aileen Fox, in: A lot of spadework to be done, Essays in honour of Lady Aileen Fox, by her New Zealand friends, 1983, Eds. S E Bulmer, R G Law and D G Sutton, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph No. 14, gives a personal account of her work.

Jim Eyles

See his posthumous autobiography: Wairau Bar moa hunter, The Jim Eyles story, 2007, River Press.

Leslie Adkin

See Anthony Dreaver, 1997: An eye for the country, The life and work of Leslie Adkin, Victoria University Press.

Julius von Haast

His broad contribution to science, exploration and museums is covered in his article in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB but his considerable early contribution to archaeology in New Zealand is noted only briefly there.

Alexander McKay

This article covers briefly his early contribution to archaeology including his disagreement with Haast over moa hunters. DNZB

See also this National Library page: McKay

H D Skinner

See Atholl Anderson's article in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB

Roger Fyfe, 1989, An anthropologist at war, in Saying so doesn't make it so, Papers in honour of B Foss Leach, Edited D G Sutton, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph No. 17, - gives an account of his war service at Gallipoli.

Peter Gathercole's introductory chapter in H.D.Skinner, 1974, Comparitively speaking, Editors Peter Gathercole, Foss Leach and Helen Leach, University of Otago Press, is a longer appreciation.

Roger Duff

See Janet Davidson's article in the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. DNZB

A more personal reminiscence is that of his sons: Duff,Gowan and Robin Duff,2004: Roger Duff: Anthropologist, Educationalist, Archaeologist. Archaeology in New Zealand 47(4):86-90.