Research Catalog

Title

The archaeology of Pouerua / Douglas Sutton, Louise Furey, Yvonne Marshall.

Author

Sutton, Doug G.

Publication

Auckland, N.Z. : Auckland University Press, 2003.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Furey, Louise
• Marshall, Y. M.

Description

ix, 262 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill., maps; 25 cm.

Summary

The third book to emerge from the Pouerua Project focuses on the pa itself, and explores the innovative attempt to use archaeological techniques to explore and understand socio-political processes. This book should be of interest to scholars, students and amateur archaeologists and historians.

Subject

• Māori (New Zealand people) > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > New Zealand
• Pouerua Site (N.Z.)
• New Zealand > Antiquities

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. Pouerua and pa site archaeology -- 2. Pouerua and the Pouerua Project -- 3. Methodology -- 4. Summary of the cultural sequence on Pouerua -- 5. Area III excavations -- 6. Area II excavations -- 7. Area IV excavations -- 8. Area I excavations -- 9. Area V excavations -- 10. Area VI excavations -- 11. Area VII excavations -- 12. Pulling the sequence together -- 13. Radiocarbon dating the cultural sequence -- 14. Form of the cone -- 15. Changing use of Pouerua -- 16. Conclusion -- Appendix 1: Posthole data -- Appendix 2: Charcoal identification.

ISBN

• 1869402928 (pbk.)
• 9781869402921 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2003374126

OCLC

• 53887499
• SCSB-12311254

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library