Archaeology

Eleven researchers have been awarded prestigious medals by the Royal Society of New Zealand. Audio

The story of NZ's first permanent European Settlers - and the early routes of biculturalism in Bay of Islands. Dr Angela Middleton is a consultant archaeologist and honorary research fellow at the… Audio

Dr Chris Smith of the Naked Scientists with some dental archaeology, and research that suggests that friendship seems to have a strong genetic basis. Audio

Do you know much about Campbell Island? It's a chilly place on the way to the Antarctica with amazing birds and plants and some valuable archaeological stuff. Audio

Coming up in this week's Spiritual Outlook - Professors Carol and Eric Meyers, biblical archaeologists and finders of 'lost arks'. Audio

Katharine Watson of Underground Overground Archaeology is an urban archaeologist using the Christchurch rebuild to find out what life was like in 19th century Canterbury. Audio

South Canterbury and North Otago are home to limestone outcrops covered in Maori rock art. Audio

Otago University archaeologist leading a team that is excavating the site of the first European settlement in New Zealand at the Marsden Cross Reserve in the Bay of Islands. Audio

As Christchurch rebuilds, archaeologists are uncovering a wealth of clues about life during the city's earliest decades Audio

A team of archaeologists and historians have dug up part of a ship thought to be some 200 years old at Cape Foulwind on the West Coast. Audio

The latest archaeological survey at Gallipoli has turned up nearly five-hundred relics - three times that found the year before. Audio

The most extensive archaeological survey of the Gallipoli battle field has discovered Malone's Terraces, a vital Anzac defence position long thought to have been destroyed. Audio

A major survey of the battlefields at Gallipoli is helping to shape our understanding of the Anzac area of Gallipoli. The historical and archaeological survey of the Anzac battlefields was conducted… Audio

4000 metres of trenches, bottles of rum and German beer and a camp for baking bread have been uncovered by a team of international archaeologists doing the first survey of the Gallipoli battlefields.

Archaeologists have made some surprising discoveries in the first-ever joint Australian, Turkish and New Zealand survey of the Anzac battlefield. The findings include 12 cemeteries, concrete boundary… Audio

The Government is refusing to be drawn into an international standoff over a tri-nation survey of the Gallipoli battlefields. Talks about the significance of the battlefield and the impact of widening… Audio

A planned survey of the battlegrounds of Gallipoli has been delayed by at least five months because of a diplomatic standoff between Australia and Turkey. Audio

Archaeologists are exploring a site in Marlborough they believe is probably the home of some of the first New Zealanders. Audio