Difference between revisions of "Category:Historic Figures"

Aileen Fox

Active in New Zealand 1973-77. See her autobiography Aileen, a pioneering archaeologist, The autobiography of Aileen Fox, 2000, Gracewing.

Mary Jeal, Mad dogs and Englishmen, Archaeological site recoriding with Aileen Fox, in: A lot of spadework to be done, Essays in honour of Lady Aileen Fox, by her New Zealand friends, 1983, Eds. S E Bulmmer, R G Law and D G Sutton, New Zealand Archaeological Assocataion Monograph No. 14, gives a personal account of her work.

Jim Eyles

See his posthumous autobiography: Wairau Bar moa hunter, The Jim Eyles story, 2007, River Press.

Leslie Adkin

See Anthony Dreaver, 1997: An eye for the country, The life and work of Leslie Adkin, Victoria University Press.

Julius von Haast

His broad contribution to science, exploration and museums is covered in his New Zealand Dictionary of Biography article, NZDB but his considerable early contribution to archaeology in New Zealand is noted only briefly there.

H D Skinner

See Atholl Anderson's article in the New Zealand Dicitonary of Biography NZDB

Rober Fyfe, 1989, An anthropologist at war, in Saying so doesn't make it so, Papers in honour of B Foss Leach, Edited D G Sutton, New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph No. 17, - gives an account of his war service at Gallipoli.

Peter Gathercole's introductory chapter in H.D.Skinner, 1974, Comparitively speaking, Editors Peter Gathercole, Foss Leach and Helen Leach, University of Otago Press, is a longer appreciation.

Roger Duff

See Janet Davidson's New Zealand Dictionary of Biography article: NZDB