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 …

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 …

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 …

The preservation of soft tissue in the archaeological record is a rare phenomenon,
especially in temperate contexts. Despite this, brain material is sometimes preserved in …

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 …

The British colony of South Australia, established in 1836, offered a fresh start to migrants
hoping for a better life. A cohort of settlers buried in a section of St Mary's Anglican Church …

The aims of this study are to determine the oral health status of a rare sample of 19th-century
migrant settlers to South Australia, how oral conditions may have influenced their general …

The mid-nineteenth century saw extensive diaspora from Europe to the antipodes. New
Zealand in particular was marketed to the poor and middle classes of the United Kingdom …

Bone is dynamic, undergoing metabolic changes in response to behavioral and pathological
stimuli. This information can be reconstructed in bioarchaeology using histological methods …