Atholl John Anderson

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Atholl John Anderson (* 1943 in Hawera , New Zealand ) is a New Zealand archaeologist , anthropologist and professor emeritus of prehistory at the Australian National University (ANU).

Life

Atholl Anderson, born in Hawera in 1943 , raised in Dunedin and Nelson , has roots to the Iwi of the Ngāi Tahu Whanui through descent from the Rakiura Māori . From 1957 to 1958 he attended the Otago Boys' High School in Dunedin .

Anderson studied geography at the University of Canterbury . After receiving his bachelor's degree in 1966 and his master's two years later, he went to Teachers Training College for a year . In order for his studies to be financed through the Teachers Training College Studentship Program , he was required to work as a teacher at a school after completing his studies. He did so from 1968 and became assistant principal at the rural primary school in Karamea on the West Coast . During this time he also married his wife Sandy . The marriage produced a daughter.

1970, wrote Anderson for the master's degree in archeology at the University of Otago , took on an archeology project (1969-1972) in the Palliser Bay in part and completed his master's degree in archeology in 1973 with First Class Honors (First Class Honors) from.

That same year, Anderson applied for a scholarship through the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan (CSFP) at the University of Cambridge for his doctoral thesis and research project in the Chatham Islands . Without waiting for a permit, he began his field investigations on the islands and was surprised there by the positive decision from Cambridge . He moved to England with his family in 1973 , enrolled for his doctoral thesis at the University of Cambridge , and first went back to the Chatham Islands , then to France and finally to Lapland , far north of Sweden , for his field research . He learned Swedish , studied Swedish libraries, finished his studies in 1976 with a dissertation on the topic: " Prehistoric competition and economical change in northern Sweden " and graduated with the distinction of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) from.

Back in New Zealand, he first took up a position at the University of Auckland in 1977 , and then in 1978, following an offer from the University of Otago, accepted an assistant position as a lecturer in anthropology. In Dunedin he married a second time. His marriage to his wife Rosanne had two children. Anderson was very productive at the University of Otago , not only as a lecturer but also as a researcher. In 1978 he led an expedition to the Kermadec Islands , followed by important excavations in Purakanui near Dunedin , on Lee Island in Lake Te Anau and in the Shag River Mouth . With the Southern Hunters Project he not only researched the prehistoric economy of the Māori on the South Island, but also gave a biologically and historically comprehensive view of New Zealand's megafauna . His publication " Prodigious Birds: Moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand " received widespread attention. Numerous other publications of his work followed. He also wrote biographies on Māori of southern New Zealand for the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography .

In 1991 he was appointed professor of anthropology and took over the management of the anthropology department at the University of Otago . But just two years later he received an offer from the Australian National University , which opened up new opportunities for his research in the Pacific region.

In 1993, he moved to the College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University and took over the chair for Prehistory, Archeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History & Language (Prehistory, Archeology and Natural History, School of Culture, History and Language). He stayed there until his retirement in 2008. He filled his 15 years of activity in Australia with numerous other researches and publications. His main interest has always been research into the cultural history of the Pacific region.

After his retirement, Anderson went back to New Zealand with his family and settled in the Wairau Valley .

Awards

Memberships

Works

from over 280 publications here is just a small selection:

  • Maori settlement in the Interior of Southern New Zealand from the early 18th to late 19th Centuries A. D . In: The Polynesian Society (Ed.): The Journal of the Polynesian Society . Volume 91 . Auckland 1982, p. 53-80 (English). ( Online | Access = 2012-08-19)
  • When all the moa ovens grew cold: nine centuries of changing fortune for the southern Maori . Otago Heritage Books , Dunedin 1983 (English).
  • Te Puoho's Last Raid . Otago Heritage Books , Dunedin 1986 (English).
  • Prodigious Birds: moas and moa-hunting in prehistoric New Zealand . Cambridge University Press , Cambridge 1989 (English).
  • Hocken Library (Ed.): Race against time: the early Maori-Pakeha families and the development of the mixed-race population in southern New Zealand . Dunedin 1991 (English).
  • together with James Herries Beattie : Traditional Lifeways of the Southern Maori . Ed .: Atholl John Anderson . Otago University Press , Dunedin 1994, ISBN 0-908569-79-3 (English).
  • The Welcome of Strangers: An ethnohistory of southern Maori AD 1650-1850 . University of Otago Press , Dunedin 1998 (English).
  • A Fragile Plenty: Pre-European Māori and the New Zealand Environment . In: Environmental Histories of New Zealand . Oxford University Press , Oxford 2002, ISBN 0-19-558421-X , pp. 19-34 (English).
  • together with Te Maire Tau : Ngāi Tahu : A Migration History . Bridget Williams Books , Wellington 2008, ISBN 978-1-877242-39-7 (English).
  • together with Geoffrey Clark : The Early Prehistory of Fiji . In: terra australis . tape 31 . ANU E Press , Canberra 2009, ISBN 978-1-921536-88-5 (English).

literature

  • Foss Leach : Atholl John Anderson: No ordinary archaeologist . In: terra australis 29 - Islands of Inquiry - Colonization, seafaring and the archeology of maritime landscapes . tape 29 . ANU E Press , Canberra 2008, ISBN 978-1-877242-39-7 , pp. 1-29 (English, Papers in Honor of Atholl Anderson ).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c newsletter . Otago Boys' High School Foundation , January 2006, accessed August 19, 2012 .
  2. ↑ 2006 Academy Yearbook - Public Honors . Royal Society of New Zealand , 2006, accessed August 19, 2012 .
  3. ^ Foss Leach : Atholl John Anderson: No ordinary archaeologist . In: terra australis 29 - Islands of Inquiry - Colonization, seafaring and the archeology of maritime landscapes . tape  29 . ANU E Press , Canberra November 2008, pp. 12-29 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Anderson, Atholl John
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Anderson, Atholl
BRIEF DESCRIPTION New Zealand archaeologist, anthropologist and professor of prehistory at the Australian National University
DATE OF BIRTH 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Hawera , New Zealand