Research Catalog

Title

Kohika : the archaeology of a late Māori lake village in the Ngāti Awa rohe, Bay of Plenty, New Zealand / edited by Geoffrey Irwin.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2004.

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Details

Additional Authors

Irwin, Geoffrey

Description

xiv, 266 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps; 25 cm.

Summary

• "Kohika was a late Maori lake village in the Bay of Plenty occupied for a period in the latter half of the 17th century and unusually preserved because of its wetland location. Abandoned because of flooding, it remained untouched until 1974 and its excavation and analysis has been a 30-year task by a large number of scholars from different disciplines, making this perhaps the major archaeological project of recent times. The diversity of the evidence uncovered and the specialist analysis done on the material revealed extensive information about the social and domestic activities of a village community well before the advent of Pakeha.
• In chapters by 20 different experts on, for example, diet, wooden artefacts, fibrework, obsidian, houses (including the oldest-known carved house), and animal remains, the book offers convincing conclusions on the trade, economy, leisure, and social hierarchy of these early New Zealanders and is an important contribution to our understanding of late prehistoric Maori culture in the North Island."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Memoir 9 of the Whakatane and District Historical Society

Uniform Title

Memoir ... of the Whakatane and District Historical Society 9.

Subject

• Ngāti Awa (New Zealand people) > Antiquities
• Ngāti Awa (New Zealand people) > Material culture
• Excavations (Archaeology) > New Zealand > Rangitaiki Plains
• Ethnoarchaeology > New Zealand > Rangitaiki Plains
• Kōrero nehe
• Papakāinga
• Tūpuna
• Mana whenua
• Kohika Site (N.Z.)
• Rangitaiki Plains (N.Z.) > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

An introduction to Kohika in historical and archaeological context / G.J. Irwin ... [et al.] -- Kohika in the geomorphological context of the Rangitaiki Plains / G.J. Irwin -- The impact of Polynesian settlement on the vegetation of the coastal Bay of Plenty / M.S. McGlone and K.L. Jones -- Excavations and site history of Kohika / G.J. Irwin -- Site chronology / G.J. Irwin and M.D. Jones -- The wooden artefacts from Kohika / R.T. Wallace and G.J. Irwin -- Houses, pataka and woodcarving at Kohika / R.T. Wallace, G.J. Irwin and R. Neich -- Kohika fibrework / S. McAra -- Artefacts of bone, tooth, pumic and pounamu / G.J. Irwin -- Sources of the Kohika obsidian artefacts / P.R. Moore -- The Kohika obsidian artefacts: technology and distribution / S.J. Holdaway -- Faunal remains from Kohika / G.J. Irwin ... [et al.] -- Evidence for diet, parasits, pollen, phytoliths, diatoms and starch grains in prehistoric coprolites from Kohika / G.J. Irwin ... [et al.] -- Kohika as a late northern Maori lake village / G.J. Irwin -- Appendix: Inventory of wooden and fibre items / R.T. Wallace and G.J. Irwin.

ISBN

• 1869403150 (pbk.)
• 9781869403157 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2004401239

OCLC

• 56095323
• SCSB-10375784

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library