Louise Furey

Margaret Louise Furey is a New Zealand archaeologist. Formerly a consulting archaeologist, she is now Curator of Archaeology at Auckland War Memorial Museum.

Biography Furey completed her BA and MA at University of Auckland in anthropology (archaeology). In 2005 she was awarded a Doctor of Science by the university for her research in archaeological science (the first and only time that this qualification has been awarded to an archaeologist by the university).

Research Furey's research interests are around Māori material culture, and she is also interested in traditional Māori gardening and the sites and material culture of the first 200 years after Polynesians arrived in Aotearoa.

Selected publications

Furey, L. (2006). Māori gardening: An archaeological perspective. Department of Conservation. Furey, L., Sutton, D. & Marshall, Y. (2003). The Archaeology of Pouerua. Auckland University Press. Furey, L. (2002). Houhora. A Fourteenth Century Māori Village in Northland. Bulletin of the Auckland Museum, 19.