Anthropology and Archaeology
Recent Deposits
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The material culture of Ban Bon Noen
This thesis examines the material culture from the six occupational layers at Ban Bon Noen, Central Thailand. Through the analysis of the ceramic, lithic and metallurgical assemblages, the range of subsistence activities ... -
Why knot?: an exploration of weddings for women in contemporary New Zealand
This investigation explores the relationship between women, marriage and weddings in contemporary New Zealand society. The persistence of these institutions is paradoxical in light of their social and material redundancy ... -
Curves in all the Right Places: An Analysis of Shape and Decoration in Mycenaean Pottery from Late Bronze Age Cyprus
Mycenaean ceramics have been found in sites across the Eastern Mediterranean, however an impressive amount of this pottery has been found on the island of Cyprus, which once lay in the midst of important Mycenaean trading ... -
Faithful Physicians: Discourses of Professionalism in Christian General Practitioners in New Zealand
In the past thirty years there has been an increasing focus on the spirituality and spiritual care of patients as they experience illness. During this peak of interest, the spiritual experiences of physicians and how it ... -
A land of plenty: butchery patterns and meat supply in nineteenth century New Zealand
Historical archaeology in New Zealand, while yielding much faunal material, has done little with these remains beyond assess what was being consumed at a particular site. The methodology used to do this varies between site ... -
War before Angkor: the evidential and theoretical context of warfare in prehistoric Thailand
The role of warfare in prehistoric Thai lifeways has been a topic of debate, although no studies have specifically sought to investigate and explain prehistoric warfare in Thailand. Recent advocacy of the heterarchic ... -
The three-dimensional jig-saw puzzle : a ceramic sequence from North east Thailand.
The aims of this research are threefold - to demonstrate changes in the ceramic sequence of four sites in one area in Northeast Thailand; to assess the extent to which these changes are indicative of wider changes in the ... -
The concept of similarity in prehistoric studies : a test case using New Zealand stone flake assemblages
The concept of similarity has occupied a key position in the interpretation of archaeological evidence since Thomson's Three Age System was formulated (Thomsen, 1836). Indeed, the writing of prehistory demands the use of ... -
Landscape : perceptions of Kai Tahu I Mua, Āianei, Ā Muri Ake
This research is concerned with Kai Tahu experiences and understandings of the concept and use of the term, landscape. The term itself is one used variously to represent for us as Iwi, the land and the sea including flora ... -
Better management through measurement: Assessing the conditions of coastal archaeological sites using spatial technologies—applied to Blueskin Bay, New Zealand
The world’s coastlines are becoming increasingly volatile for archaeological sites. This instability can be primarily attributed to climate change and its associated influence on oceanic processes, which are aggravating ... -
Archaeology and Temperance: Measuring a Century of Household Alcohol Consumption in New Zealand
The temperance movement was a social reform movement which sought to limit alcohol consumption, and ultimately prohibit its sale. The high levels of alcohol consumption which existed in early nineteenth century New Zealand ... -
Human Perceptions of Megafaunal Extinction Events Revealed by Linguistic Analysis of Indigenous Oral Traditions
Human settlement into new regions is typically accompanied by waves of animal extinctions, yet we have limited understanding of how human communities perceived and responded to such ecological crises. The first megafaunal ... -
Polynesian pudding processes in west and east Polynesia : an ethnographic, linguistic and archaeological synthesis to study the antiquity of elaborate culinary concoctions in Polynesia
Food preparations, culinary-related Proto-Polynesian and Proto-Nuclear-Polynesian words and material culture associated with cookery processes from West and East Polynesia provided the data base. This study looks at the ... -
Change over time on Mana Island
This thesis is centred around an analysis of faunal material from a 1990 excavation at site R26/141 on Mana Island, Wellington. This material was used to infer patterns of change over time in the uses of Mana Island; from ... -
It's Your Shout! A New Way of Measuring Use Wear on Glass Bottles
It was not until 1922 that glass manufacturing was available in New Zealand and prior to this, glass bottles were considered valuable and useful objects. This lack of glass encouraged reuse. Reuse has implications for ...