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View all images and videos from the Cook's Cove excavation. Use the grey arrows to navigate forward and backward.  Click any photo to view a larger version, or to start a slide show.  In the Video section, click an image to play the film (Quicktime format).

Photos from Cook's Cove

  • helicopter arriving with gear
  • Turfing
  • Turf removal
  • Eroding face
  • Andy excavating
  • Bagging artefacts
  • Sieving
  • Getting underway
  • Artefacts
  • Removal of layers
  • Recording the features
  • Taking a break
  • Overview of the site, day 4
  • Day 4 fish hooks
  • Drawing a half section
  • Cleaning the excavation area
  • Excavating layer 4
  • Half sectioning
  • Oven Stones
  • Using Leica theodolite
  • Hand held GPS
  • Terraces nearby
  • Visitors at the site
  • Wet sieving
  • Drawings of fish hooks
  • Jean using Leica
  • Lizzy and Karen at work
  • Lynda and Sheryl at work
  • Minnow lure
  • One piece hook
  • Augering the site
  • frank with moa bone
  • Hook made from Cooks Turban shell
  • School students trying their hand
  • View of the 3 excavation areas
  • Moa leg bone
  • Obsidian blade
  • Ovens
  • Postholes
  • Detail of the floor in O11
  • Layer 5, O12
  • trench relative to excavation site
  • Early morning view of the site
  • Layer 5
  • Media interest
  • Ovens
  • Seal bones
  • Seal bones
  • Trench
  • The team
  • Posthole in O12
  • Presentation to the iwi
  • Recording the baulks
  • Screening the site
  • Hoeing
  • Sieved midden
  • Andy in the trench
  • Backfilling
  • Bulldozer backfilling the site
  • Team outside Ruakapanga
  • View of the site, last day
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Videos

  • Cook's Cove
  • Eroding face
  • Getting underway
  • Investigations - video
  • Using Leica theodolite
  • Lizzy and Karen at work
  • Minnow lure
  • Hook made from Cooks Turban shell
  • Moa leg bone
  • trench relative to excavation site
  • Layer 5
  • Media interest
  • The team
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