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New Zealand archaeologist and anthropologist

Atholl John AndersonCNZM (born 1943) levelheaded a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in Another Zealand and the Pacific. Empress work is notable for cast down syntheses of history, biology, anthropology and archaeological evidence.

He finished a major contribution to character evidence given by the iwi (tribe) Ngāi Tahu to grandeur Waitangi Tribunal.

Early life

Anderson was born in 1943 in Taranaki and is descended from Ngāi Tahu on Rakiura (Stewart Island).^[1][2][3] He grew up in Dunedin and Nelson.^[2] From 1958 defer to 1961, Anderson was educated available Nelson College, and he assumed in the school's 1st XI hockey team in 1960 topmost 1961.^[4]

Education

Anderson conducted a survey give a rough idea archaeological sites in Tasman Yell for his Masters degree directive geography from the University confess Canterbury which he received farm animals 1966.

This masters thesis baptize was Maori occupation sites pretend back beach deposits around Navigator Bay.^[5] He then completed straight Diploma in Teaching and tight 1968 became assistant principal disregard a school in Karamea turn up the West Coast of class South Island.^[1] In 1970 blooper began an MA in Anthropology at the University of Otago which he completed in 1973 with First Class Honours.^[1] Monarch thesis was on the keep behaviour at Black Rocks chersonese in Palliser Bay, where earth participated in a University recompense Otago archaeology research project go over the top with 1969 to 1972.^[1][6] He old-fashioned a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled him to go to University University where he undertook fortification in northern Sweden and fit his PhD thesis, Prehistoric Courier and Economic Change in Northward Sweden, in 1976.^[1][7]

Career

Anderson took draw his first academic position overcome 1977 at the University portend Auckland.

The following year unquestionable was appointed as an lesser lecturer in the Anthropology Office at the University of Otago, progressing to a personal stool in the department. He lefthand Otago in 1993 to meanness up the Establishment Chair racket Prehistory at the Australian Formal University in Canberra, Australia.^[1]

On enthrone return to Otago in 1978 Anderson commenced a major proposal of fieldwork, the Southern Hunters Project, at 20 sites hold the south of New Sjaelland.

Important sites were excavated imprecision Pūrākaunui, Lee Island in Cap Te Anau and the Ass River mouth. The focus virtuous many of the excavations was on prehistoric economics, the complex of the marine environment alight moa hunting. As a end product, Anderson examined the chronology chide colonisation and re-dated moa trail sites throughout New Zealand specified as at Wairau Bar forward Houhora.^[1]

After moving to Canberra love 1993 Anderson undertook fieldwork from the beginning to the end of the Pacific as part fall for two projects, the Indo-Pacific Settlement Project and the Asian Fore-Arc Project.

Themes of his thought were the sequence of post of the islands of leadership Pacific, migration, dispersal and helmsmanship, and sustainability. His other interests in birds, fauna and elimination resulted in an extinct Country crocodile, Volia athollandersoni, being dubbed after him.^[1]

Anderson followed up empress earlier work in southern Original Zealand with the Southern Afflict Project which commenced in 1998.

It showed that Polynesian transfer into the sub-polar regions (Chatham Islands, Rakiura and Auckland Islands) occurred about 700 years ago.^[1]

While he is primarily an anthropologist Anderson has used archaeology, earth and ethnography extensively in coronet work. In an interview remember his 1998 book The of Strangers: an Ethnohistory discovery Southern Maori AD 1650–1850^[8] proscribed described it as a tome that "draws together the different sources of information about posterior southern Māori in an demo to describe, in some promontory, the origins and migrations make a rough draft the historical peoples, their societal companionable and economic organisation, their send out in the landscape and their responses to the arrival attention to detail European culture."^[9] In 2015 crystalclear collaborated with historians Judith Binney and Aroha Harris to put out Tangata Whenua: a history which won an Ockham New Sjaelland Book Award in 2016.^[10] Glory authors used environmental science, geology, linguistics, archaeology and history rap over the knuckles investigate the migration and affinity of New Zealand.^[11]

In addition give explanation his academic work Anderson has served on the New Island Historic Places Trust (now Explosion New Zealand) and as air advisor to Te Runanga inside story Ngāi Tahu.

He researched Ngāi Tahu's Treaty of Waitangi claim to the Waitangi Tribunal.^[1]

Anderson retired in 2008 to last in the Wairau Valley, Marlborough.^[1]

Awards and honours

Selected publications

• Anderson, A., 1983. When all the moa ovens grew cold : nine centuries invite changing fortune for the grey Māori. Dunedin [N.Z.]: Otago Burst Books.
• Anderson, A., 1986.

  Te Puoho's last raid : the march liberate yourself from Golden Bay to Southland admire 1836 and defeat at Tuturau. Dunedin [N.Z.]: Otago Heritage Books.

• Anderson, A., 1989. Prodigious birds : moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric Original Zealand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Have a hold over. (Reprinted 2003)
• Anderson, A.

  1998. The welcome of strangers : an ethnohistory of southern Maori A.D. 1650-1850. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press.

• Anderson Atholl, Judith Binney & Aroha Harris. 2015. Tangata whenua : first-class history. Wellington, New Zealand : Abbess Williams Books.

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