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Article Excerpt
Change Through Time: 50 Years of New Zealand Archaeology Edited by Louise Furey and Simon Holdaway. New Zealand Archaeological Association Monograph 26, Auckland, 2004. ISSN 0111-5715; ISBN 0-9597915-9-0. Pp. 374 + CD. $NZ45 + postage.
Except for its modest celebrity as the southerly vertex of the Great Polynesian Triangle, it would be easy to see the archaeology of New Zealand as marginal even within Marginal Polynesia. In the context of a discipline that is still publicly identified with the usual quests for human origins, ethnic migrations, and the oldest this or that, New Zealand--unlike Australia--would appear to have little to offer in the way of prehistory that is certifiably awe-inspiring, astonishingly early, or strangely unlike what Europe, Asia, or the New World can show us. If this dismissive judgment sounds about right to you, then this is the book to...
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