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The remains of 12 early European and Chinese settlers were reinterred in Drybread Cemetery, Central Otago, on Saturday, marking an important final...

The Southern Cemeteries Archaeological Project will soon be complete, when the third and final reburial ceremony takes place at Drybread Cemetery this month.

A gravestone at the Drybread Cemetery in Central Otago. Photo: RNZ / Cosmo Kentish-Barnes The month-long excavation finished earlier in December. Drybread, north of Alexandra, was an 1860s gold rush settlement. The cemetery dates back to that time, but is still in use today and the fear that future planned burial plots may already contain remains led to the excavation. The dig's co-director, Professor Hallie Buckley, said 12 graves were exhumed including six Chinese people and two infants. Professor Hallie Buckley. Photo: RNZ / Tim Brown "We were able to identify two of the Chinese people f...

Otago cemetery dig unlocks history Newsroom 20/12/2020 © Provided by Newsroom tago researchers are using scientific technology to look beyond the usual paper records to the tangible skeletal remains of early miners and other settlers found in unmarked graves in Otago’s cemeteries. Researchers trained in human anatomy and archaeology are steadily building on what we know about the lives of early European and Chinese miners who travelled thousands of miles to extract the gold from our mountains, rivers and valleys. And in the process, they are helping some who are still seeking final clos...