Kohika
Contents
Summary
Location and Date
Kohika is on the Rangitaiki Plains in North Island New Zealand.
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The site dates to the latter half of the 17th century.
Type
The site is described by its excavator as a lake village. It occupies a low sand knoll on the edge of what was a shallow lake at the time of its occupation. Some of the occupational deposits extend into the firmer lake. It was defended. A conventional shorthand is that is was a swamp pa.
Excavators
Project Directors
The project director was Geoff Irwin
Archaeologists
Other contributing specialists
Ian Lawlor and Joanna Boileau both worked at the site and wrote MA theses on aspects of the site.
Site workers
Artefacts
Publications
Excavation Report
The principal report is: Kohika The archaeology of a late Maori lake village in the Ngati Awa rohe, Bay of Plenty New Zealand. Edited G Irwin, 2004, Auckland University Press.
Other Papers
G Irwin, R Wallace, S Green 2007 An archaeological collection of gourd artefacts from the Kohika lake village … of Pacific material culture: in honour …, - Univ of Otago Pr
Starch grains and xylem cells of sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas) and bracken (Pteridium esculentum) in archaeological deposits from northern New Zealand M Horrocks, G Irwin, M Jones, D Sutton - Journal of Archaeological …, 2004 - Elsevier
Taylor, Graeme Irwin, Geoffrey Clark, Geoffrey Leach, Foss O’Connor, Sue 2008 The dry and the wet: The variable effect of taphonomy on the dog remains from the Kohika Lake Village, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand Islands of Inquiry: Colonisation, seafaring and the archaeology of maritime landscapes ANU Press Terra Australis 29 http://dspace.anu.edu.au/handle/1885/47207
