Prehistory and ecology in a windward Hawaiian valley: Halawa Valley, Molokai
Dept. of Anthropology, Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum • (24) • Published In 1975 • Pages: xiv, 207
By: Kirch, Patrick Vinton, Kelly, M. (Marion), Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Rosendahl, Paul H. (Paul Harmer), Riley, Thomas J., Hendren, Gilbert H..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Kirch reports on the archaeological investigations of the Halawa Valley Project. Halawa is a windward valley on the island of Molokai. One goal of the report was to understand the settlement patterns of the valley by examining residential, ceremonial, and agricultural sites. The structural remains examined included habitation terraces, house remains, cook house remains; aboriginal agricultural features such as agricultural terraces, irrigation ditches, pens, and walls; ceremonial platforms, shrines, named HEIAU; and other features such as burials, foot trails, stone walls, and one large cleared area. Excavations were also carried out at the mouth of the valley at a stratified sand dune site that dates to A.D. 650. The site appears to contain the remains of the valley's original settlement. Kirch briefly compares the valley's archaeology with the rest of Hawaii and proposes a local chronological framework which is composed of three prehistoric phases.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Archaeological excavation methods
- Fauna
- Tillage
- Water supply
- Lithic industries
- Heating and lighting equipment
- General tools
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- Cultural stratigraphy
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Hawaiian
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Oceania
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Polynesia
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- NotesAdditional notes
- Patrick Vinton Kirch and Marion Kelly, editors ; contributions by Gilbert H. Hendren … [et al.]
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-203)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 75035304
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Hawaii--Antiquities