A fourteenth-century house from the Rakaia River Mouth, Canterbury, New Zealand

Abstract

Large-scale areal excavations at the Rakaia River Mouth moa-hunting site exposed an array of post holes indicative of a substantial building. Also found were the remains of a possible cooking shelter and oven, several fire scoops, and early type artefacts, all contained within a fenced enclosure. Radiocarbon dates provide a fourteenth-century age estimate. The structural features provide important new insights into the nature of intra-site spatial patterning and of house society both in early New Zealand and a wider Pacific context.

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