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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

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