Kauri Point Pa

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Summary

Site U13/4

Location and Date

File:Kauri Pt2.jpg
Lawrie Birks excavations

On the Katikati Peninsula in the Tauranga Harbour, Bay of Plenty. <googlemap lat="-37.556673" lon="175.941281" zoom="16"> -37.553779, 175.917139, Katikati, Bay Of Plenty, New Zealand -37.55632, 175.941472, Kauri Pt Pa </googlemap>

Excavations took place in 19 , 19 and the early 1970s.

Type

Pa site - prehistoric

Excavators

Project Directors

Jack Golson

Archaeologists

Wall Ambrose

University of Auckland Archaeological Society

Other contributing specialists

Alan Pullar

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 Unpublished manuscript presented at New Zealand Archaeological Association Conference, New Plymouth.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 [1]. Law's review of the archaeology of the Bay of Plenty reviewed the evidence from the site [2] .

References

  1. Green, R.C. 1978: Dating the Kauri Point sequence. Historic Review 26(1): 32–45.
  2. Law, R G 2008 Archaeology of the Bay of Plenty Department of Conservation Publication 246, Wellington.