{"id":740,"date":"2021-02-25T06:36:48","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T17:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/?p=740"},"modified":"2021-03-01T09:13:15","modified_gmt":"2021-02-28T20:13:15","slug":"seminar-who-let-the-dogs-out-predicting-provenance-of-archaeological-kuri-in-aotearoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/seminar-who-let-the-dogs-out-predicting-provenance-of-archaeological-kuri-in-aotearoa\/","title":{"rendered":"Seminar: Who let the dogs out? Predicting Provenance of Archaeological Kur\u012b in Aotearoa"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 3.30pm, the Centre for Global Migrations and History Programme host a joint seminar from Robyn Kramer (Anatomy, University of Otago). Robyn’s abstract is as follows:<\/p>\n

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When M\u0101ori settled Aotearoa around AD 1300, they brought kur\u012b with them on their waka (sea-faring canoes). Kur\u012b lived in close quarters and travelled with M\u0101ori and were (and still are) considered highly prized, or taonga. Archaeological evidence suggests that early M\u0101ori adapted quickly to their new environment and moved rapidly across the landscape of both the North and South Islands. After initial settlement, there were regional differences in settlement patterns, but the true extent of mobility and migration for pre- and post-contact M\u0101ori remains unknown and represents the research problem for my PhD.<\/p>\n

My doctoral research constructs a map depicting strontium (87<\/sup>Sr\/86<\/sup>Sr) variation throughout Aotearoa that I use to investigate the migration and interaction spheres of early M\u0101ori and their domesticated dogs, kur\u012b.\u00a0Human mobility can be predicted using\u00a087<\/sup>Sr\/86<\/sup>Sr\u00a0values derived from dental enamel because teeth record the\u00a0geochemical signature\u00a0of food resources ingested during tooth formation and are indicative of childhood residency.\u00a0\u00a0Analyzing 87<\/sup>Sr\/86<\/sup>Sr involves the destructive analysis of culturally significant human skeletal remains, k\u014diwi tangata, and this is a major issue in Aotearoa bioarchaeology. This research avoids the need to destroy human remains by using the kur\u012b teeth as a proxy for humans, known as the \u201cCanine Surrogacy Approach\u201d. My research uses a maximum-likelihood assignment model to predict the origin of 80 kur\u012b from 13 NZ archaeological sites to elucidate mobility patterns and potential interaction spheres of pre- and post-contact M\u0101ori populations.<\/p>\n

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On Wednesday 24 March 2021 at 3.30pm, the Centre for Global Migrations and History Programme host a joint seminar from Robyn Kramer (Anatomy, University of Otago). Robyn’s abstract is as follows: Abstract When M\u0101ori settled Aotearoa around AD 1300, they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20036,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20036"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.otago.ac.nz\/globalmigration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}