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    Maori occupation sites in back beach deposits around Tasman Bay.

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    Author
    Anderson, Atholl
    Date
    1966
    Permanent Link
    http://hdl.handle.net/10092/16180
    Thesis Discipline
    Geography
    Degree Grantor
    University of Canterbury
    Degree Level
    Masters
    Degree Name
    Master of Arts

    The study of New Zealand's prehistory is beset by a number of problems. Chief among them are the lack of confident indicators of cultural change, and the lack of sufficient detail about sites over a wide area. Insufficient evidence of the general framework of successive occupation in New Zealand is available to the research worker. The archaeologist is faced with constructing a framework of occupation by extrapolation between excavated sites over a wide area. The variation in opinion evident in literature on New Zealand is prehistory bears witness to the dangers of this. On the other hand, site surveys cover a wide area, but in insufficient detail to allow much interpretation of the results. The value of this study, therefore, lies in its intermediacy. A wide area can be, and was, covered in sufficient detail to suggest a framework of successive Maori occupation, and to indicate some relationships: between the Maori and his environment, as portrayed in a site.

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