e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Title Starts with...
Title Keyword(s)
Author/Performer/Name (Last,First)
Author/Performer/Name Keyword(s)
Subject Starts with...
Subject Keyword(s)
Series Starts with...
Series Keyword(s)
Anyword/Anywhere
List Name Keyword(s)
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
More Content
More by this author
Veart, David.
Subjects
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Zealand -- Juvenile literature.
New Zealand -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Veart, David.
by title:
Digging up the past ...
by call number:
993 V39d
Search the Web
Veart, David.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- New Zealand -- Juvenile literature.
New Zealand -- Antiquities -- Juvenile literature.
MARC Display
Digging up the past : archaeology for the young and curious / David Veart.
by
Veart, David.
Auckland University Press, c2011.
Call #:
993 V39d
Subjects
Maori
(
New
Zealand
people
)
--
Antiquities
--
Juvenile
literature
.
Excavations (Archaeology)
--
New
Zealand
--
Juvenile
literature
.
New
Zealand
--
Antiquities
--
Juvenile
literature
.
ISBN:
9781869404659
Description:
104 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps ; 28 cm.
Notes:
Maps on endpapers.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [105]).
Contents:
Leave nothing but footprints
--
Voyaging nation
--
New
world of giant birds - and meat
--
When you sight a site
--
Dig!
--
New
land,
new
gardens (same old veggies)
--
In it up to your elbows
--
Tales from tools
--
Pets, cloaks and four-legged fridges
--
Pā and learning how to see
--
Historical archaeology
--
Location, location, location
--
Where did all those trees go?
--
Chinese gold
--
Wandering Celts meet Occam's razor
--
Boeing, Boeing gone
--
Archaeology on ice
--
Moa under the mine base.
Summary:
What do moa eggs, seeds chewed by rats & 600-year-old footprints have in common? Lost planes, dog turds and frozen sleeping bags? Archaeologists deal with artefacts like these every day in Aotearoa
New
Zealand
to make sense of the world of our ancestors, our tūpūna. In this book Daviud Veart walks alongside the archaeologists as they dig up the past on top of volcanoes and beneath our city streets, in Māori pā and explorers' huts. He offers us the things they find obsidian blades, enamel cups, the carved prow of a waka and the remarkable stories they have uncovered of Polynesian sailors and Pākehā sealers, Māori gardeners and Chinese storekeepers.
Awards:
Honour award
New
Zealand
Post Children's Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2012.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Woodlawn Public Library
Children's Nonfiction
993 V39d
Childrens Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Tantallon Public Library
Children's Nonfiction
993 V39d
Childrens Books
Checked in
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.