Finding our Recent Past: Historical Archaeology in New Zealand

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Finding our Recent Past: Historical Archaeology in New Zealand

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Edited Matthew Campbell, Simon Holdaway, Sarah Macready

New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph No 29. 2013 226pp ISBN 978-0-9582977-2-1

Eleven papers on early European sites (lan Smith, Angela Middleton), Maori sites of the 19th century (Stuart Bedford Simon Holdaway and Rod Wallace, Harry Allen and Caroline Phillips), rural homesteads (Matthew Campbell and Louise Furey), Chinese market gardening (Janice Adamson and Hans Bader), Auckland industrial sites and the entrepreneurs (Sarah Macready, Simon Bickler and Rod Clough), and the technological development of power (Peter Petchey).

A summary paper (Susan Lawrence) discusses New Zealand's historic archaeology from a global perspective.

Blurb:

Historic archaeology in New Zealand has come of age This book will be a valuable addition to discussions of historic archaeology, and a text book for students.

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Reviews:

A review by Katharine Watson (2013) was in AINZ 56(4):233-235