Professor Roger GreenDr Harry AllenPhillips, Caroline2007-07-302007-07-301994Thesis (PhD--Anthropology)--University of Auckland, 1994.http://hdl.handle.net/2292/1159Restricted Item. Print thesis available in the University of Auckland Library or may be available through Interlibrary Loan.This is an archaeological study of Maori occupation along the lower Waihou River, Hauraki from the time of first settlement at about 1450 until 1850 AD. It identifies changes in the environment, economy, settlement distribution and demography over time, and details four pre-contact and three post-contact phases of occupation with differing economic, social, political and spatial responses. These are brought together in a developmental framework describing a series of cultural changes, thereby enabling the underlying processes to be ascertained. This research makes several arguments. Firstly, that Maori material culture has to be understood in the light of the functional and socio-political context in which the objects were made and used. Secondly, that regional analysis of this type employing a range of detailed environmental, settlement location, historical and excavation data are necessary in order to provide an historical developmental framework. Thirdly, that New Zealand settlement distribution studies have to adopt a more flexible approach using models more appropriate to Maori society. Fourthly, that cultural processes can best be analysed through the underlying ideological concepts of the society whose culture is being studied. The thesis concludes that the people of Hauraki displayed a range of dynamic socio-political responses to a variety of natural and human induced events that occurred over a four hundred year period.Scanned from print thesisenWhole document restricted. Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated.https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htmThesisFields of Research::370000 Studies in Human Society::370300 AnthropologyFields of Research::420000 Language and Culture::420300 Cultural Studies::420306 Maori cultural studiesCopyright: The authorhttp://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/ClosedAccessQ111964187