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Ngā Tohuwhenua Mai Te Rangi: A New Zealand Archeology in Aerial Photographs

[introduction]

page 229

The last part of this book turns from a regional review of mainly Māori archaeological sites to European industrial archaeological sites in a few selected areas of the North and South Islands. Particularly close selection of sites, many of which are spectacular in aerial view, has been necessary. This chapter concentrates on commodities, such as coal or whale oil, while the subsequent chapters deal with early farming and gold. In the exporting field, kauri gum, whaling and even sealing have been as important as gold in the folk history of New Zealand, and brief mention is made of the sites of those industries. Of these industries, whaling was by far the most important as an early influence in settlement and relations between Māori and European. The last of the minor industries that lends itself to depiction in aerial photography is the mining of copper.