These courses were taught in the University of Hawai'i Study Abroad Program in London using resources at the British Museum. This course covers the origins and expansion of Pacific populations, including Greater Australia, Melanesia, Micronesia, and Polynesia. Problems of chronology, human diversity, and patterns of interaction are the focus of some analysis. The course considers environmental and landscape change, the evolution of social complexity, and other current research questions in critical light. An introduction to basic laboratory methods and techniques for archaeological sediments, fauna, flora, ceramics, lithics, and other artifacts.
Students learn skills useful for publication of archaeological finds.
This is a critical and synthetic overview of archaeology and prehistory in the Hawaiian Islands. This course usually includes a neighbor island field trip to see archaeological sites in their landscape context. This course is an intensive introduction to the theory, methods, and techniques used in the analyses of archaeological ceramics. Thematic foci of the course include problems of specialist and domestic production, pottery trade, technological change and abandonment, use and functional roles of pottery, and style in historical and spatial contexts. This is a field and laboratory course on the analyses of sediment and soils in archaeological context.