Abstract
Over the last eighteen months, members of the Anthropology Department at the University of Otago have been monitoring Watson's Beach to record present conditions, to facilitate future research and to study processes of coastal erosion (Walter and Tucker 2001).
This paper serves as preliminary report on the site at Watson's Beach, providing a description of the archaeological material presently exposed and reviewing the fieldwork undertaken to date. Further investigation has the potential to contribute towards several research issues including: cultural change and the Archaic in Murihiku, site type and location on the southern east coast, intra-site spatial patterning, and the management of coastal sites. Additionally, there is little published archaeological work from this region of the Otago coastline.