A fourteenth‐century house from the Rakaia River Mouth, Canterbury, New Zealand

Large‐scale areal excavations at the Rakaia River Mouth moa‐hunting site exposed an array of post holes indicative of a substantial building. Also found were the remains of a possible cooking shelter and oven, several fire scoops, and early type artefacts, all contained within a fenced enclosure. Radiocarbon dates provide a fourteenth‐century age estimate. The structural features provide important new insights into the nature of intra‐site spatial patterning and of house society both in early New Zealand and a wider Pacific context.