More 21st Century Archaeology

Kia ora,

The archaeological team here at Wairau Bar has been bolstered by the arrival of Hans Bader, a field archaeologist from Auckland, and some pretty impressive technology. One of the big problems about digging here is the sheer scale of the site – the Bar itself is 8 kilometres long, and although the main settlement we are interested in appears to be centred around the northern end, there’s still a lot of ground to cover – it’s at least 8 hectares in area (80,000 square metres, or about 12 rugby fields!) – and it may well be twice that size.