888
Views
1
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research articles

Tectonic activity and the history of Wairau Bar, New Zealand’s iconic site of early settlement

&
Pages 459-473 | Received 12 Nov 2017, Accepted 16 Jan 2018, Published online: 18 Feb 2018

References

  • Anderson AJ. 1991. The chronology of colonization in New Zealand. Antiquity. 65:767–795.
  • Anderson AJ. 2014. Te Ao Tawhito: The Old World. In: Anderson AJ, Binney J, Harris A, editor. Tangata Whenua, an illustrated history. Auckland: Bridget Williams Books; p. 16–187.
  • Barnes GL. 2017. The search for tsunami evidence in the geological and archaeological records, with a focus on Japan. Asian Perspectives. 56(2):132–165. doi: 10.1353/asi.2017.0006
  • Benson AM, Little TA, Van Dissen RJ, Hill N, Townsend DB. 2001. Late Quaternary palaeoseismic history and surface rupture characteristics of the eastern Awatere strike-slip fault, New Zealand. GSA Bulletin. 113(8):1079–1091. doi: 10.1130/0016-7606(2001)113<1079:LQPHAS>2.0.CO;2
  • Brooks E, Walter RK, Jacomb C. 2011. History of excavations at Wairau Bar. Records of the Canterbury Museum. 25:13–58.
  • Brown AA, Thomas T. 2015. The first New Zealanders? An alternative interpretation of stable isotope data from Wairau Bar, New Zealand. PLoS ONE. 10(10):e0135214. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0135214.
  • Brown LJ. 1981. Late Quaternary geology of the Wairau Plain, Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 24:477–490. doi: 10.1080/00288306.1981.10422739
  • Clark KJ, Hayward BW, Cochran UA, Wallace LM, Power WL, Sabaa AT. 2015. Evidence for past subduction earthquakes at a plate boundary with widespread upper plate faulting: southern Hikurangi margin, New Zealand. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America. 105(3):1661–1690. doi: 10.1785/0120140291
  • Clark KJ, Van Dissen R, Litchfield N, Bartholomew T, Little T. 2011. The Vernon Fault: onshore palaeoseismicity, constraints on slip rate, and contribution to Holocene tectonic subsidence of Big Lagoon. GNS Science Report 2011/42.
  • Davidson JM, Findlater A, Fyfe R, MacDonald J, Marshall B. 2011. Connections with Hawaiki: the evidence of a shell tool from Wairau Bar, Marlborough, New Zealand. Journal of Pacific Archaeology. 2(2):93–101.
  • DeConto RM, Pollard D. 2016. Contribution of Antarctica to past and future sea-level rise. Nature. 531:591–597. doi: 10.1038/nature17145
  • Dudley WC, Lee M. 1998. Tsunami! Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
  • Duff RS. 1956. The moa-hunter period of Maori culture. Wellington: Government Printer.
  • Force ER. 2016. Impact of tectonic activity on ancient civilisations. New York: Lexington Books.
  • Garin A Fr. 1855. Mission notes. Tremewan P, translator; Rome: Marist Fathers Archive. University of Canterbury, 2000–2001.
  • Goff JR, Chagué-Goff C, Nichol S. 2001a. Palaeotsunami deposits: a New Zealand perspective. Sedimentary Geology. 143:1–6. doi: 10.1016/S0037-0738(01)00121-X
  • Goff JR, McFadgen BG, Chagué-Goff C, Bell R, Downes G, Kozuch M. 2001b. Wellington Regional Tsunami Hazard Scoping Project. Wellington Regional Council Publication No. WRC/RP-T-01/23.
  • Golledge NR, Kowalewski DE, Naish TR, Levy RH, Fogwill CJ, Gasson EGW. 2015. The multi-millennial Antarctic commitment to future sea-level rise. Nature. 526:421–425. doi: 10.1038/nature15706
  • Grapes RH. 2000. Magnitude eight plus, New Zealand’s biggest earthquake. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  • Grapes RH. 2011. The visitation. The earthquakes of 1848 and the destruction of Wellington. Wellington: Victoria University Press.
  • Grapes RH. 2015. Evidence for 1855 tsunami inundation along the east Wairarapa coast and at Farewell Spit. GeoScience New Zealand Newsletter. 17:19–22.
  • Grapes RH, Downes G. 1997. The 1855 Wairarapa, New Zealand, earthquake—analysis of historical data. Bulletin of the New Zealand National Society for Earthquake Engineering. 30(4):271–368.
  • Grapes RH, Holdgate GR. 2014. Earthquake clustering and possible fault interactions across Cook Strait, New Zealand, during the 1848 and 1855 earthquakes. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 57(3):312–330. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2014.907579
  • Grapes RH, Wellman HW. 1986. The north-east end of the Wairau Fault, Marlborough, New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society New Zealand. 16(3):245–250. doi: 10.1080/03036758.1986.10418168
  • Hayward BW, Clark KJ, Sabaa AT, Cochran U. 2015. Taphonomically- and infaunally-adjusted salt marsh foraminiferal record of late Holocene earthquake displacements and a tsunami sand, New Zealand. Journal of Foraminiferal Research. 45(4):354–368. doi: 10.2113/gsjfr.45.4.354
  • Hayward BW, Grenfell HR, Sabaa AT. 2012. Marine submersion of an archaic moa-hunter occupational site, Shag River estuary, North Otago. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 55(2):127–136. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2012.671181
  • Hayward BW, Wilson KJ, Morley MS, Cochran U, Grenfell HR, Sabaa AT, Daymond-King R. 2010. Microfossil record of the Holocene evolution of coastal wetlands in a tectonically active region of New Zealand. The Holocene. 20(3):405–421. doi: 10.1177/0959683609353431
  • Higham T, Anderson AJ, Jacomb C. 1999. Dating the first New Zealanders: the chronology of Wairau Bar. Antiquity. 73:420–427. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00088360
  • Hogg AG, Hua Q, Blackwell PG, Niu M, Buck CE, Guilderson TP, Heaton TJ, Palmer JG, Reimer PJ, Reimer RW, et al. 2013. SHCal13 Southern Hemisphere calibration, 0–50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon. 55(4):1889–1903. doi: 10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16783
  • Holdaway B. 2016. The Wairau and its forgotten capital. Blenheim: Prisma Print.
  • Holdgate GR, Grapes RH. 2015. Wairau Basin and fault connections across Cook Strait, New Zealand: seismic and geological evidence. Australian Journal of Earth Sciences. 62(1):95–121. doi: 10.1080/08120099.2015.986195
  • IPCC. 2013. Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis. Working Group 1 Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [Stocker, Qin, Plattner, Tignor, Allen, Boschung, Nauels, Xia, Bex, and Midgley (Eds).] Cambridge University Press. (Online version: IPCC WG1AR5_Chapter13_ FINAL.pdf.).
  • Jacomb C, Holdaway RN, Allentoft ME, Bunce M, Oskam CL, Walter RK, Brooks E. 2014. High-precision dating and ancient DNA profiling of moa (Aves: Dinornithiformes) eggshell documents a complex feature at Wairau Bar and refines the chronology of New Zealand settlement by Polynesians. Journal of Archaeological Science. 50:24–30. doi: 10.1016/j.jas.2014.05.023
  • Kelly L. 2016. The memory code. Crows Nest, NSW: Allen and Unwin.
  • Kinaston RL, Walter RK, Jacomb C, Brooks E, Tayles N, Halcrow SE, Stirling C, Reid M, Gray AR, Spinks J, et al. 2013. The first New Zealanders: patterns of diet and mobility revealed through isotope analysis. PLoS ONE. 8(5):e64580. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0064580.
  • King DN, Goff JR, Chagué-Goff C, McFadgen BG, Jacobsen GE, Gadd P, Horrocks M. 2017. Reciting the layers: evidence for past tsunamis at Mataora-Wairau Lagoon, Aotearoa-New Zealand. Marine Geology. 389:1–16. doi: 10.1016/j.margeo.2017.05.001
  • King DN, Goff JR, Skipper A. 2007. Maori environmental knowledge and natural hazards in Aotearoa—New Zealand. Journal of the Royal Society of NZ. 37(2):59–73. doi: 10.1080/03014220709510536
  • King G, Bailey G. 2006. Tectonics and human evolution. Antiquity. 80:265–286. doi: 10.1017/S0003598X00093613
  • Kinger R. 2017. An archaeomagnetic study of hangi stones in New Zealand [Thesis]. Doctor of Philosophy in Physics. Victoria University of Wellington.
  • Knox GA. 1990. An Ecological Study of the Wairau River Estuary and the Vernon Lagoons. Report to Dept Conservation, Nelson.
  • Lane EM, Mountjoy JJ, Power WL, Mueller C. 2016. Probabilistic hazard of tsunamis generated by submarine landslides in the Cook Strait canyon (New Zealand). Pure and Applied Geophysics. 173:3757–3774. doi: 10.1007/s00024-016-1410-0
  • McKinnon M. 2016. Malcolm McKinnon,Marlborough region—climate, plants and animals, Te Ara—the Encyclopedia of New Zealand. [accessed 2017 May 30]. http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/photograph/31741/wairau-river-diversion-1963.
  • McFadgen BG. 1982. Dating New Zealand archaeology by radiocarbon. New Zealand Journal of Science. 25:379–392.
  • McFadgen BG. 2007. Hostile shores, catastrophic events in prehistoric New Zealand and their impact on Maori coastal communities. Auckland: Auckland University Press.
  • McFadgen BG, Goff JR. 2007. Tsunamis in the New Zealand archaeological record. Sedimentary Geology. 200(3–4):263–274. doi: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2007.01.007
  • McFadgen BG, Knox FB, Cole TRL. 1994. Radiocarbon calibration curve variations and their implications for the interpretation of New Zealand prehistory. Radiocarbon. 36:221–236. doi: 10.1017/S0033822200040510
  • Mitchell H, Mitchell J. 2004. Te Tau Ihu O Te Waka: a history of Maori of Nelson and Marlborough. Volume 1. Te Tangata me te Whenua: the people and the land. Wellington: Huia publishers in association with Wakatu Incorporation.
  • Molloy L. 1993. Soils in the New Zealand landscape, the living mantle. NZ Society of Soil Science, c/o Department of Soil Science, Lincoln University, Canterbury. 2nd edition, Chapter 7.
  • New Zealand Palaeotsunami Database. 2017. https://ptdb.niwa.co.nz.
  • Nicholls M, editor. 1973. Traveller under concern. The Quaker journals of Frederick Mackie on his tour of the Australian colonies 1852–1855. Hobart: University of Tasmania.
  • Nur A, with Burgess D. 2008. Apocalypse: earthquakes, archaeology, and the wrath of God. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press.
  • PCE. 2015. Preparing New Zealand for rising seas: certainty and uncertainty. Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment Te Kaitiaki Taiao a te Whare Pāremata. Wellington, New Zealand: Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment.
  • Petchey F. 2005. Use of three isotopes to calibrate human bone radiocarbon determinations from Kainapirina (SAC), Watom Island, Papua New Guinea. Radiocarbon. 47:181–192. doi: 10.1017/S0033822200019688
  • Trotter MM. 1975. Further excavations at Wairau Bar, New Zealand. Asian Perspectives. XVIII(I):75–80.
  • Tuckett F. 1843. Report of his exploratory journey to Wairau. Alexander Turnbull Library, NZC 3/13/#51, Wellington.
  • Wang Y, Amundson R, Trumbore S. 1996. Radiocarbon dating of soil organic matter. Quaternary Research. 45:282–288. doi: 10.1006/qres.1996.0029
  • Wilkes O. n.d. Further work at Wairau Bar. Typescript, Christchurch: Canterbury Museum.
  • Wood JR, Wilmshurst JM, Richardson SJ, Rawlence NJ, Wagstaff SJ, Worthy TH, Cooper A. 2013. Resolving lost herbivore community structure using coprolites of four sympatric moa species (Aves: Dinornithiformes). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 110(42):16910–16915. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1307700110
  • Zachariasen J, Berryman K, Langridge R, Prentice C, Rymer M, Stirling M, Villamor P. 2006. Timing of late Holocene surface rupture of the Wairau Fault, Marlborough, New Zealand. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 49(1):159–174. doi: 10.1080/00288306.2006.9515156

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.