Simon Bickler

Biographic Data

ID330887
NAMESimon Bickler
GIVEN NAMESSimon
FAMILY NAMEBickler
SIGNATUREBICKLER S
AFFILIATIONSClinical Research Consultants (United States)
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS40
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1990
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX3

  • Early Māori Settlement in Auckland CBD

    Open AccessSimon Best, Simon H Bickler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2026

    The Queen Street Gaol Site (R11/1559) excavation in 1987 was one of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s earliest large-scale archaeological investigations of a 19th-century colonial site. However, one of its significant findings related to much earlier Māori occupation along the Waihorotiu Stream. Despite over 40 years of work in Auckland, the site remains the only securely dated Māori site in the Auckland Central Business District. Redating samples from …

  • Research Report

    Open AccessMark Horrocks, Bronwen Presswell et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2024

    Here we present helminthological analysis of archaeological substrates and coprolites from Coromandel Peninsula. One type of helminth egg, Toxocara canis, was identified. The presence of a single species in numerous samples across widely separate sites suggests it was the most common New Zealand canine helminth parasite in pre-contact times. The distinctive morphology of T. canis eggs makes them readily identified in archaeological contexts, and …

  • A plant microfossil and parasite record from Taranaki, New Zealand reveals Māori translocations and intestinal parasites

    Open AccessMark Horrocks, Russell Gibb et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2024

    The study of Māori agriculture in New Zealand has been hindered by lack of direct evidence, i.e., plant remains. While combined microfossil (pollen, phytoliths, and starch) studies are showing promise, many regions, including the North Island’s west coast, have received little attention. Here we address these hindrances with microfossil analysis of archaeological substrates at Pohokura in one such region, Taranaki, to shed light on local Māori ac…

  • Spectacle and Concealment at Auckland’s Colonial Prisons

    Open AccessSimon H Bickler, Simon Bickler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2024

    Archaeological excavations at Queen Street Gaol and Mount Eden Prison in central Auckland, New Zealand revealed architectural and artefactual evidence shedding light on penal practices in the colony of New Zealand. The Queen Street Gaol, established in 1841 on the outskirts of the growing Auckland settlement, served as a showcase of the colony’s power, featuring public displays of punishment such as stocks and hangings. In the latter half of the …

  • A plant microfossil and parasite record from Palliser Bay stone garden systems, New Zealand, reveals Māori translocations and helminthiasis

    Open AccessMark Horrocks, Andy Dodd et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2024

    The study of Māori agriculture, including almost all the numerous Māori stone garden sites recorded in both the North and South Islands, has been limited by lack of evidence in the form of plant remains. Here we address this under-research by providing microfossil analyses (pollen, phytoliths, and starch) of 22 archaeological soil samples across a 14 km range, with an additional sample from 11 km distant, from Palliser Bay in the southern North I…

  • It’s Not (Just) Cricket

    Open AccessSimon H Bickler, Simon Bickler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2023

    Metal belt buckles featuring cricket motifs were popular in New Zealand and other British Empire territories during the mid-late 19th century, especially among military personnel and those associated with military redoubts. These buckles were also popular in the United Kingdom and Australia during the late 1850s to the 1870s. The military links with cricket helped spread the sport across New Zealand, with Imperial soldiers playing a crucial role …

  • Plant microfossil and 14C analysis of archaeological features at Coromandel Peninsula, New Zealand

    Open AccessMark Horrocks, Simon H Bickler et al.ARTICLEJournal of Pacific Archaeology2023

    The study of Māori agriculture has been limited by lack of evidence in the form of plant remains. Studies using a combined microfossil (pollen, phytolith, and starch) approach have shown promise, although have mostly focused on specific sites. Here we address these limitations by providing a relatively high geographic resolution microfossils and 14C study examining how several sites within a region compare to one another. Using samples from sedim…

  • Sourcing temper sands in ancient ceramics with U–Pb ages of detrital zircons

    Open AccessClare J Tochilin, Clare Tochilin et al.ARTICLEJournal of Archaeological Science2012Cited by: 16References: 4

  • Engraved prehistoric Conus shell valuables from southeastern Papua New Guinea

    Open AccessW R Ambrose, Wal Ambrose et al.ARTICLEArchaeology in Oceania/Archæology…2012Cited by: 15References: 24

    In the early 1900s thirteen engraved Conus shell valuables were dug from prehistoric midden mounds in Oro Province. Since the early 1970s nineteen undated surface finds have been found in the northern Massim of Milne Bay Province.When three artifacts became available for AMS radiocarbon dating, provided they were restored after sampling to their original visual appearance, a specialist team was assembled and this paper reports its findings regard…

  • Voyaging by canoe and computer

    Open AccessGeoffrey Irwin, Simon H Bickler et al.ARTICLEAntiquity1990Cited by: 9References: 7

    There is no expansion of human settlement to match the colonization of the Pacific islands, from Island Southeast Asia right across to Hawaii, Easter Island and down to New Zealand. The expansion is given an extra interest by the new finding that it began as early as the Pleistocene. The settlement of the remote Pacific began after 3500 BP and computer modelling and analysis of inter-island transits explains not just how settlement was possible-b…