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[http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/praetzel/ Adrian Praetzellis], 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
 
[http://www.sonoma.edu/users/p/praetzel/ Adrian Praetzellis], 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.
  
Well is it a spoof? Set in an excavation in Victoria, Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction - but it is also a who-dunit and a primer on underaking excavations.   Praetzellis has spent some time here so the local references are knowing. The New Zealand English glossary is a hoot.
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Well is it a spoof? A who-dunit set in an excavation in Victoria (thinly diguised Queenstown), Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction at one level - but it is also a primer on underaking excavations. Praetzellis has spent some time in New Zealand so the local references are knowing. The New Zealand English glossary is a hoot.
  
Ian Barber has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand.
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[[Barber Ian|Ian Barber]] has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand 2005 48(4):256-58.
  
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There are other reviews linked [http://books.google.co.nz/books?id=JxVdTpPvrNoC&sitesec=reviews&source=gbs_navlinks_s here.]
  
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Dug to Death

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'A tale of archaeological method and mayhem'.

Adrian Praetzellis, 2003 Altamira Press, Walnut Creek.

Well is it a spoof? A who-dunit set in an excavation in Victoria (thinly diguised Queenstown), Central Otago undertaken by the University of Invercargill it is clearly fiction at one level - but it is also a primer on underaking excavations. Praetzellis has spent some time in New Zealand so the local references are knowing. The New Zealand English glossary is a hoot.

Ian Barber has reviewed it in Archaeology in New Zealand 2005 48(4):256-58.

There are other reviews linked here.