Research

Clough & Associates Ltd maintains an active interest in academic and educational research. The company is committed to promoting heritage for all New Zealanders and maintains an ongoing research into both the historic and pre-European periods.

Some recent academic publications are listed below:

1. Beavan Athfield, N., Green, R. C., Craig, J., McFadgen, B. and S. Bickler. 2008. The influence of marine sources on 14C ages: Isotopic data from Watom Island, Papua New Guinea inhumations and pig teeth in light of new dietary standards. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 38(1):1–23. (Download here).
2. Bickler, S.H. and J. Low. 2007. “Lies, damned lies and geophysics”: Uses and abuses of remote sensing techniques in New Zealand Heritage Management. Archaeology in New Zealand 50(3): 195-210.
3. Bickler, S.H., 2006. Prehistoric stone monuments in the northern region of the Kula Ring. Antiquity. 80:38-51. (A runner-up for the Antiquity Prize 2006).
4. Turner, M., K. Hill, and R. Clough. 2005. Chinese Artefacts from a Site at Wakefield St, Auckland. Archaeology in New Zealand 48(3):260-278.
5. Felgate, M.W. S.H. Bickler, and P. Murrell, in press. Quantifying Broken Objects: Estimating The Death Assemblage By Integrating Sample Assemblage Brokenness and Completeness. Journal of Archaeological Science.
6. Best, S. 2002. Lapita: A View from the East. New Zealand Archaeological Association Monographs.
7. Campbell, Matthew and Rod Clough, 2002. Omaha Beach, stage 1: preliminary archaeological report. Archaeology in New Zealand, 45(2): 128–152.
8. Bickler, S.H. and M. Turner. 2002. Food to Stone: Investigations at the Suloga Stone Tool Manufacturing Site, Woodlark Island, Papua New Guinea. Journal of the Polynesian Society 111 See review in Current Anthropology.