Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites

Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites
ISBN-10
0824817397
ISBN-13
9780824817398
Category
Social Science
Pages
130
Language
English
Published
1996-01-01
Publisher
University of Hawaii Press
Author
Patrick Vinton Kirch

Description

"Some 1,500 years ago, Polynesian seafarers discovered and settled the Hawaiian Islands, spawning a culture that flourished in isolation until Europeans arrived in the late eighteenth century. Pre-contact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public. This volume provides for the first time an authoritative handbook to the most important of those archaeological treasures." "The fifty sites covered in this book are distributed over all of the main islands and include heiau (temples), habitation sites, irrigated and dryland agricultural complexes, fishponds, petroglyphs, and several post-contact (early nineteenth-century) sites. Site locations are shown on individual island maps, and detailed plans are provided for several sites."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

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