Hallie Buckley
Archaeology project planning to find and exhume unmarked graves
An archaeology project to find and exhume unmarked graves at a Central Otago cemetery begins today.
The delicate University of Otago task at the 150-year-old Drybread Cemetery, near Omakau, will take… Audio
Digging up the past: Hallie Buckley & Peter Petchey
A series of exhumations from grave sites in the South Island at Lawrence and Milton are revealing more about the lives of our early settlers. The Otago Historic Cemeteries Bioarchaeology Project is in… Audio
Historic Cemetery Findings
University of Otago researchers are gaining fresh insights into the quality of life and identity of Otago's early European settlers and farmers. The team has excavated skeletons from unmarked graves… Audio, Gallery
Uncovering the past
Archaeologists have been working alongside the Milton community to excavate an old Anglican cemetery, to find 'lost burials' and restore the stories of early Otago farmers. Audio, Gallery
Wairau Bar: How it all began
Veronika Meduna joins Rangitane iwi members and scientists at Wairau Bar, New Zealand's most significant archaeological site, to find out about the place and its people, who were among the first to… Video, Audio
Lapita - Early Polynesians
What old bones from Vanuatu can tell us about the lives and deaths of the early Lapita people Audio