While on my fellowship I have become fascinated by fossils. On a recent field trip to the beach at Paekakariki we found evidence of an early cooking pit sandwiched between layers of sand in the eroded sand hills behind the beach. It is called a shell midden and contains discarded fossilised clam shells and carbonised wood (charcoal) from the cooking fires.
It is hundreds of years old and gives us information about what early inhabitants of this area ate and how they cooked their food.
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