Leach – Tumbledown Bay Fish Archaeology in New Zealand – March 2024 16 Analysis of Fish Bones from a Site at Tumbledown Bay, Banks Peninsula, New Zealand: Balancing Macronutrients by Simulation Foss Leach Research Associate, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa Introduction The main archaeological site in Tumbledown Bay (Figure 1) is best known for the presence of abundant moa bones. It was officially reported to NZAA by Graeme Mason and Owen Wilkes in 1963 (site S94/30, now N37/12, and listed as an occupation layer). However, the site was well known long before that and von Haast refers to it having been found by a Mr F. Fuller, and described as an encampment (Haast, 1871: 89). Figure 1: The site is at the head of Tumbledown Bay, with sandy flats exposed at low tide. Image from Google Earth. Site location from Archsite. Excavations have been undertaken at the site by a number of people over many years, including Teviotdale, Wilkes, Trotter, and Allingham. Unfortunately, very little has been published about the site apart from Mason and Wilkes (1963), although a preliminary report of salvage excavations in 1987 by Allingham is