Episode 5 Dunedin’s shoreline reclamation archaeology

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Apr 22, 202117:04Society & Culture

Rosemary talks with Matthew Schmidt about archaeology found in the infilled Dunedin shoreline. Large areas of modern Dunedin are built on a colonial cap of infilled rubbish. What do archaeologists discover when excavatin...

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