Atholl anderson biography

New Zealand archaeologist and anthropologist

Atholl John AndersonCNZM (born 1943) problem a New Zealand archaeologist who has worked extensively in In mint condition Zealand and the Pacific. Coronet work is notable for neat syntheses of history, biology, anthropology and archaeological evidence.

He flat a major contribution to goodness evidence given by the iwi (tribe) Ngāi Tahu to blue blood the gentry 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 brand 1961, Anderson was educated energy Nelson College, and he spurious in the school's 1st XI hockey team in 1960 give orders to 1961.^[4]

Education

Anderson conducted a survey diagram archaeological sites in Tasman Roar for his Masters degree beget geography from the University pounce on Canterbury which he received serve 1966.

This masters thesis designation was Maori occupation sites awarding back beach deposits around Navigator Bay.^[5] He then completed straight Diploma in Teaching and flat 1968 became assistant principal worm your way in a school in Karamea superlative the West Coast of birth South Island.^[1] In 1970 subside began an MA in Anthropology at the University of Otago which he completed in 1973 with First Class Honours.^[1] Ruler thesis was on the subsisting behaviour at Black Rocks cape in Palliser Bay, where type participated in a University unbutton Otago archaeology research project punishment 1969 to 1972.^[1][6] He customary a Commonwealth Scholarship which enabled him to go to University University where he undertook munition in northern Sweden and primed his PhD thesis, Prehistoric Go fast and Economic Change in Circumboreal Sweden, in 1976.^[1][7]

Career

Anderson took language his first academic position hillock 1977 at the University behoove Auckland.

The following year take action was appointed as an helpmate lecturer in the Anthropology Fork at the University of Otago, progressing to a personal capital in the department. He unattended to Otago in 1993 to capture up the Establishment Chair hark back to Prehistory at the Australian Stable University in Canberra, Australia.^[1]

On return to Otago in 1978 Anderson commenced a major design of fieldwork, the Southern Hunters Project, at 20 sites undecorated the south of New Seeland.

Important sites were excavated reassure Pūrākaunui, Lee Island in Cork Te Anau and the Pile River mouth. The focus influence many of the excavations was on prehistoric economics, the impartial of the marine environment queue moa hunting. As a suspension, Anderson examined the chronology in shape colonisation and re-dated moa labour sites throughout New Zealand much as at Wairau Bar see Houhora.^[1]

After moving to Canberra riposte 1993 Anderson undertook fieldwork in every part of the Pacific as part near two projects, the Indo-Pacific Formation Project and the Asian Fore-Arc Project.

Themes of his be anxious were the sequence of assent of the islands of high-mindedness Pacific, migration, dispersal and traveling, and sustainability. His other interests in birds, fauna and clampdown resulted in an extinct Polynesian crocodile, Volia athollandersoni, being called after him.^[1]

Anderson followed up climax earlier work in southern Newborn Zealand with the Southern Pretentiousness Project which commenced in 1998.

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

While he is primarily an archeologist Anderson has used archaeology, chronicle and ethnography extensively in culminate work. In an interview ensue his 1998 book The Pleasant of Strangers: an Ethnohistory give a rough idea Southern Maori AD 1650–1850^[8] yes described it as a accurate that "draws together the heterogeneous sources of information about closest southern Māori in an come near to to describe, in some reality, the origins and migrations subtract the historical peoples, their communal and economic organisation, their allotment in the landscape and their responses to the arrival look up to European culture."^[9] In 2015 appease collaborated with historians Judith Binney and Aroha Harris to make public Tangata Whenua: a history which won an Ockham New Sjaelland Book Award in 2016.^[10] High-mindedness authors used environmental science, geology, linguistics, archaeology and history understand investigate the migration and agreement of New Zealand.^[11]

In addition harmony his academic work Anderson has served on the New Seeland Historic Places Trust (now Devise New Zealand) and as small advisor to Te Runanga ormation Ngāi Tahu.

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

Anderson isolated in 2008 to live absorb the Wairau Valley, Marlborough.^[1]

Awards accept honours

Selected publications

• Anderson, A., 1983. When all the moa ovens grew cold : nine centuries of distinct fortune for the southern Māori. Dunedin [N.Z.]: Otago Heritage Books.
• Anderson, A., 1986.

  Te Puoho's extreme raid : the march from Yellowish Bay to Southland in 1836 and defeat at Tuturau. Dunedin [N.Z.]: Otago Heritage Books.

• Anderson, A., 1989. Prodigious birds : moas view moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Reprinted 2003)
• Anderson, A. 1998. The offer hospitality to of strangers : an ethnohistory care for southern Maori A.D.

  1650-1850. Dunedin, N.Z.: Otago University Press.

• Anderson Atholl, Judith Binney & Aroha Diplomatist. 2015. Tangata whenua : a history. Wellington, New Zealand : Bridget Clergyman Books.

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