Lockerbie Les
Leslie (Les) Lockerbie -1996
Les was employed at Otago Museum as its education officer. His period of service was from 1947 until retirement in 1976.
His earlier career was as a teacher. In the late 1930s he was involved in publishing a number of books for schools, With two: Deeds of daring in New Zealand and The games of Ao-tea-roa he was the primary author and in a futher three books of plays he contributed illustrations and staging notes. One of the latter books, published by Reeds, was printed by the Caxton Press, one of Denis Glover's first outputs.
While resident at McLennan he came across material eroding from the Papatowai site and he asisted Teviotdale in exavating the site in 1936 [1].
References
Buick, Thomas Lindsay 1937 The Moa-Hunters of New Zealand: Sportsman of the Stone Age. Thomas Avery and Sons Limited, 1937
N Prickett 1996 Archaeology in New Zealand 39(3):160-161.
R Scarlett 1996 Archaeology in New Zealand 39(4):309
Bibiliography
1940 Excavations at Kings Rock, Otago, With a Discussion of the Fish-Hook Barb as an Ancient Feature of Polynesian Culture, Journal of the Polynesian Society 49:393-446.
1950 Dating the Moa-Hunter, Journal of the Polynesian Society 59:78-82.
1953 Further Excavation of the Moa-Hunter Site at the Mouth of the Tahakopa River, Journal of the Polynesian Society 62:13-32.
1954 Stratification in Otago Archaeological Sites, Journal of the Polynesian Society 63:141-46[12].
1959 From Moa Hunter to Classic Maori in Southern New Zealand. In Anthropology in the South Seas. Ed. Freeman, J. D. & Geddes, W. R. Thomas Avery & Sons Ltd., New Plymouth, N.Z. 75-110.
1972 Rafter, T A, Jansen, H S, Lockerbie, L, and Trotter, M M, New Zealand Radiocarbon Reference Standards. In T. A. Rafter, and T. Grant-Taylor (Eds): Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Radiocarbon Dating. Royal Society of N.Z., Wellington.
