Somewhere in Ōwhiro Bay, Wellington, on the 22nd of June 2025, a person was doing what New Zealanders do best on a sunny winter’s day. Gardening. Unremarkably, peacefully, gloriously ordinary gardening. And then, the not ordinary arrived from te pō ki te ao mārama (from the darkness to the light). Human remains, right there inContinue reading “The 350-Year-Old Secret in a Wellington Garden: How Radiocarbon Dating Actually Works”