Legacy of the landscape
Subtitle: an illustrated guide to Hawaiian archaeological sites
By: Patrick Vinton Kirch ; photographs by Thérèse I. Babineau.
Contributors: Babineau, Thérèse I.
Publisher: University of Hawai ì Press; University of Hawai ̀i Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Honolulu
Language: eng
Number of pages: 130
Subjects: Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Hawaii.; Excavations (Archaeology) -- Hawaii.; Hawaii -- Antiquities.
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 122-125) and index.