“[e]xplore something of the extraordinary diversity of contemporary and recent treatments of the dead around the world.." Pearson,1999:20).

The origins of the islands of New Zealand, the creation of the greenstone, and stories of the toki being in use are included...

There, the meanings that archaeologists have attributed to the artifacts and their placement in the terms of the mythology are aligned...

Myths from different cultural areas with tools of control - adze.

Myths from different cultural areas with tools of control - AXES.

Myths from different cultural areas and tools of control.

Across the world societies have commonly held beliefs that they want to demonstrate the communities’ belief using the act of burial...

“most ancient funerary rites seem to be archaeologically invisible, … the act of burial provides – potential information" (Pearson, 1999).

For the next while I'll be blogging pieces of my thesis, so I figured that I would start at the beginning. Abstract and acknowledgements.