Jim Eyles

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James Roy (Jim) Eyles OBE (1926–2004) was a New Zealand archaeologist.

Born in 1926, Jim spent his early years living with his family at the Wairau Bar near Blenheim where, in 1939 as a schoolboy, he discovered early human skeletons and associated artefacts including necklaces, stone tools and moa egg. Jim discovered several more burials on the bar, and assisted with the exacavtions carried out by Roger Duff from the Canterbury Museum. The site is regarded as one of the oldest and most important archaeological sites in New Zealand.

Eyles continued his association with Duff during the excavations of Pyramid Valley Swamp in the 1940s. Duff recognised his contribution by naming an extinct hawk found in the swamp the Eyles' Harrier.

A descendant of pioneer whaler Jimmy Jackson,^[1] Eyles worked at Canterbury, Hokitika and Nelson Museums, as well as in whaling and farming.

References

Eyles, James R. (2007). Wairau Bar Moa Hunter. Dunedin, NZ: River Press. ISBN 978-0-9582779-0-7.

↑ ALBERT ROY EYLES, Page 14, his father

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Name	Eyles, Jim
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Short description	New Zealand archaeologist
Date of birth	1926
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Date of death	2004
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