| Kirch: Legacy/Landscape Cloth Contributor(s): Kirch, Patrick Vinton (Author), Babineau, Therese (Photographer) |
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ISBN: 0824818164 ISBN-13: 9780824818166 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press OUR PRICE: $44.65 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 1996 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Archaeology |
| Dewey: 996.91 |
| LCCN: 95041637 |
| Physical Information: 0.66" H x 10.3" W x 10.25" (1.90 lbs) 130 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Oceania - Geographic Orientation - Hawaii |