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

Kirch, Patrick Vinton; Babineau, Thaeraese I

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0824818164 ISBN 13: 9780824818166

Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press, 1996

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Patrick Vinton Kirch is Class of 1954 Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley, and the author of seven books including "The Evolution of the Polynesian Chiefdoms" and "Anahulu: The Anthropology of History in the Kingdom of Hawaii "(with Marshall Sahlins, 1992).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Hawai'i Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0824818164
• ISBN 13: 9780824818166
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 130