South Island Archaeology

08/07/2026

Just another day in the field....if your field happens to float! Alana Kelly recording a historic marine structure from a work boat 🚢.

17/06/2024

Check this website out! Congratulations to the Christchurch Archaeology Project on launch of NZ's first online archaeological museum. An important resource for Canterbury and beyond.

12/09/2023

A panel of Christchurch based archaeologists present six entertaining and interesting short talks on life as shown by artefacts themselves.

30/06/2023

Ceramics!!!

One of the features of nineteenth century ceramics in New Zealand is how colourful many of them can be. Transferware - that is, ceramic vessels decorated with underglaze transfer prints, designs quite literally transferred onto the unglazed pottery with a sheet of paper - are easily the most common

22/03/2023

Congrats Kat, Jessie & Hayden on launch of this website. A very important Chch initiative and worth a follow!

OUR MISSION IS TO PRESERVE, SHARE & RESEARCH OTAUTAHI / CHRISTCHURCH'S ARCHAEOLOGICAL PAST.

21/12/2022

As we shut down for the break SIA would like to wish all our project partners a very Merry South Island Christmas! Another busy year with lots of interesting heritage projects (some pics below). Looking forward to 2023!

21/10/2022

Its been a posthole kind of week at SIA😜. At least the weather was good. Happy long weekend everybody!

12/10/2022

SIA's TJ O'Connell presented at this Christchurch Heritage Festival event tonight. TJ joined a number of speakers at Kate Sheppard House telling stories of Christchurch's 19th century dark side as revealed by the city's archaeology. There are still many heritage related events happening throughout the month, we recommend you check them out!

https://ccc.govt.nz/news-and-events/whats-on/event/exploring-the-underworld-tales-of-christchurchs-dark-side?fbclid=IwAR3Occsf-Z_J4DEN-Zpa5s_WmpT37rTxILChIuaSRY3_cDecvH7KAoftvu8

Join four archaeologists for an evening of talks about some of the less salubrious aspects of Christchurch's history, as revealed by the city's archaeology.

04/10/2022

The benefits of working in Kaikoura