Abstract The nineteenth century New Zealand goldfields were a place where people from
across the world came together in search of their fortunes. Written accounts of life on the …

During the nineteenth century, New Zealand was promoted as a land of plenty, promising a
'better life', to encourage families to settle and develop the growing colony. This paper …

This paper aims to re-examine the dietary practices of individuals buried at Sigatoka Sand
Dunes site (Fiji) in Burial Ground 1 excavated by Simon Best in 1987 and 1988 using two …

Objectives There are few bioarcheological analyses of life experiences in colonial period
Aotearoa New Zealand, despite this being a time of major adaptation and social change. In …

In the mid-late nineteenth century thousands flocked to the newly-established British colony
of New Zealand in the hope of improving their fortunes and forging a better life. While …

This study characterized the effect of calorie restriction (CR) on elemental content and stable
isotope ratio measurements of bone" collagen" and hair keratin. Adult mice on graded CR …

Experiences of childhood in colonial New Zealand are difficult to reconstruct from the
historical record alone. Many of those who came to the colony were illiterate, and the …

Isotopic analyses of human skeletal materials are widely used in archaeology to infer an
individual's diet and residential mobility. The lifetime representation of a bone isotopic value …

Isotopic analyses of human remains have the potential to alter our understanding of
prehistoric lifeways and migration in Australia, but very few such analyses have been …

Many mid‐19th‐century immigrants to New Zealand are presumed to have been in pursuit of
a “better life” than was achievable in their origin countries. Here, we utilize histological …