Anthropology and Archaeology
Recent Deposits
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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 ... -
Changing food habits of New Zealanders of European descent 1870-1970 : an anthropological examination of the mechanisms of cultural change
Between 1870 and 1970 both the culture and food habits of New Zealand European society underwent change. In the past food habits have been examined using either an historical approach or consumption and nutritional data. ... -
Ageing in an Increasingly Diverse Aotearoa New Zealand
Well within the span of older New Zealanders’ lifetimes, the country’s population has changed substantially from its bicultural roots consisting primarily of Māori (the Tangata Whenua and indigenous peoples) and a ... -
Timebanking in New Zealand: Academic and Activist Discussions of its Challenges and Pleasures
This ethnographic and participatory action research project explores the emerging movement of timebanking in New Zealand. Beginning in 2004, timebanks have developed in more than 25 locations around New Zealand, drawing ... -
Kahukura: Faunal Exploitation in a Southern New Zealand Context
Kahukura lies near the cusp of two distinct but connected regions - Foveaux Strait and the Catlins. The following research examines Kahukura’s site function and faunal exploitation. It explores how Kahukura relates to and ... -
Household Narratives from a Colonial Frontier
This research uses an archaeological assemblage collected during the redevelopment of a central Whanganui carpark into the Victoria Retail Centre to highlight the potential of this type of material to provide rich and ... -
Phimai is the New Black: Assessing the Standardisation of Kiln Fired Phimai Black Ceramics from the Iron Age Site of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand
This thesis set out to ascertain the nature of the Phimai Black ceramic tradition at the site of Non Ban Jak, Northeast Thailand. The research was undertaken to assess the degree of visual standardisation through a ... -
Redcliffs Archaeological History and Material Culture
Over 140 years of excavation events at the Redcliffs site complex on the edge of Ihutai, Canterbury, has resulted in a unique material culture collection in Canterbury Museum. The site complex’s physical setting is located ... -
Houses, Shrines and the Social Landscape: a study of architecture on Tetepare, Solomon Islands
By the late pre-contact period a distinctive cultural tradition involving skull shrine architecture, headhunting raids, and shell valuable exchange had emerged in the New Georgia archipelago of the Solomon Islands. This ... -
Materialising Ancestral Madang: Aspects of pre-colonial production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea
This thesis examines the nature of changing pottery production and exchange on the northeast coast of New Guinea in the pre-colonial past. Models in Melanesian archaeology suggest that the recent past, leading up to ... -
An Exploration of Health Perceptions and Practices among South Asian Descendants Living in Dunedin, New Zealand
Drawing from critical medical anthropology, post-colonial theory and case-study interviews with nine people of South Asian descent living in Dunedin, this research asks whether there may be a greater demand for medical ...