Kuaaina Kahiko - Life and Land in Ancient Kahikinui, Maui

Follows archaeologist Patrick Vinton Kirch on a seventeen-year-long research odyssey to rediscover the ancient patterns of life and land in Kahikinui. Through painstaking archaeological survey and detailed excavations, Kirch and his students uncovered thousands of previously undocumented ruins of houses, trails, agricultural fields, shrines, and temples. Kirch describes how native Hawaiians began to permanently inhabit the rocky lands along the vast southern slope of Haleakal?.

About the author

Patrick Vinton Kirch is professor of anthropology at the University of Hawai'i at Mānoa, and professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.

Product details

• Authors: Patrick V. Kirch, Patrick Vinton Kirch
• Publisher: University of hawaii press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2014
• EAN: 9780824839550
• ISBN: 978-0-8248-3955-0
• No. of pages: 448
• Series: Choice Outstanding Academic Bo; Choice Outstanding Academic Bo
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous