Overview
Examination of past and recent research in archaeology of the New Zealand region (North, South, Stewart, Chathams and Subantarctic Islands), from initial human settlement until the recent past.
This paper offers students new and stimulating archaeological insights into the origins, development, identities and interactions of the Māori, Moriori, and later settler peoples of New Zealand. Case studies range across the New Zealand archipelago, including the Chatham Islands. The course considers when, where, and how the first Polynesians and their accompanying plants and animals were transferred from the tropics into the colder lands of temperate New Zealand as well as the impacts of those new arrivals on New Zealand's native fauna and flora. We explore the ways in which society, economy, ideology, patterns of settlement and exchange developed as Polynesians first colonised the diverse New Zealand islands, from the subtropical far north to the subpolar south. We then consider the archaeology of the more recent historical past in New Zealand. We examine changes in Māori culture, society and economy, and the arrival and the emergence of other cultural traditions during the 19th century.
About this paper
| Paper title | New Zealand Archaeology |
|---|---|
| Subject | Anthropology |
| EFTS | 0.15 |
| Points | 18 points |
| Teaching period(s) | Semester 1
(Distance learning)
Semester 1 (On campus) |
| Domestic Tuition Fees ( NZD ) | $1,173.30 |
| International Tuition Fees | Tuition Fees for international students are elsewhere on this website. |
- Prerequisite
- 18 200-level ANTH or 108 points
- Restriction
- ARCH 304, ANTH 430
- Schedule C
- Arts and Music
- Notes
- May not be credited together with ANTH309 passed in 2011 or 2012.
- Contact
- More information link
Please visit the Programme of Archaeology
- Teaching staff
Co-ordinator: Professor Ian Barber
Contributing Lecturers:
- Paper Structure
Primary themes:
- Archaeology of the first New Zealanders, including the emergence of Indigenous Māori and Moriori peoples across varied and changing island landscapes
- Archaeology of Indigenous and other settler peoples in New Zealand from the late eighteenth century
- Teaching Arrangements
The Distance Learning offering of this paper is taught remotely.
Taught lectures, laboratories.
- Textbooks
- Furey, L. & Holdaway, S.J. (ed.) 2004. Change Through Time: 50 years of New Zealand Archaeology. NZAA Monograph 26.
- Smith, I.W.G. 2020. Pākehā Settlements in a Māori World: New Zealand Archaeology, 1769–1860. Wellington, Bridget
Williams Books [Ebook, available through library].
- Course outline
Will be available on Blackboard at the beginning of the course.
- Graduate Attributes Emphasised
- Cultural understanding, Ethics, Research.
View more information about Otago's graduate attributes. - Learning Outcomes
- Gain subject knowledge of core issues and case studies in New Zealand archaeology
- Improved understanding of the processes, impacts, interactions and identities associated with the human colonisation of New Zealand
- New appreciation and understanding of current specialist analysis in New Zealand archaeological research