Kohika

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Summary

Location and Date

Kohika is on the Rangitaiki Plains in North Island New Zealand.

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The site dates to the latter half of the 17th century.

Type

The site is described by its excavator as a lake village. It occupies a low sand knoll on the edge of what was a shallow lake at the time of its occupation. Some of the occupational deposits extend into the firmer lake. It was defended. A conventional shorthand is that is was a swamp pa.

Excavators

Project Directors

The project director was Geoff Irwin

Archaeologists

Other contributing specialists

Ian Lawlor and Joanna Boileau both worked at the site and wrote MA theses on aspects of the site.

Boileau, Joanna 1978 Wood from Kohika, A Study of Exploitation and Wood-working Technology. M.A. Research Essay, University of Auckland.

Lawlor, I 1979 Paleoenvironment Analysis: An Appraisal of the Prehistoric Environment of the Kohika Swamp Pa (N68/140), Bay of Plenty. M.A. Thesis, University of Auckland.

Site workers

Artefacts

Publications

Excavation Report

The principal report is: Kohika The archaeology of a late Maori lake village in the Ngati Awa rohe, Bay of Plenty New Zealand. Edited G Irwin, 2004, Auckland University Press.

Other Papers

G Irwin, R Wallace, S Green 2007 An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village … of Pacific material culture: in honour …, - Univ of Otago Pr

Starch grains and xylem cells of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and bracken (Pteridium esculentum) in archaeological deposits from northern New Zealand M Horrocks, G Irwin, M Jones, D Sutton - Journal of Archaeological …, 2004 - Elsevier

Taylor, Graeme Irwin, Geoffrey Clark, Geoffrey Leach, Foss O’Connor, Sue 2008 The dry and the wet: The variable effect of taphonomy on the dog remains from the Kohika Lake Village, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes ANU Press Terra Australis 29 http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/47207