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Quotations

Pen.jpgPithy quotations about local archaeology are welcome here - contibutions to the webmaster@archaeopedia.com.


It was decided therefore to use the plough as a quicker method of exploring the area. Burial 19 at point 32 .... was soon located from the presence of some mandible fragments in the furrow, and burial 20 at point 33 ... from some cranium fragments and a tooth.

Roger Duff 1950 The Moa-Hunter Period of Maori Culture, page 60.

We know more about the Classic Maori than we shall know about any other phase of prehistoric New Zealand culture, because with the arrival of literate Europeans, prehistory was "caught alive".

Jack Golson 1959 Culture change in Prehistoric New Zealand page 47.

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