Hawaiian Islands (Geographic Keyword)

DATASET Paula Sabloff. Kong Cheong.

Dataset of 43 statuses (positions) found in the archaeological and historical literature on Protohistoric Hawaii, i.e., the period just before the advent of Captain Cook (1650 to 1778). For each status, the expected roles and actual behaviors are listed, as are the rank (relative position) and bases for legitimacy or anyone holding the given status. Additional information on the society or status-holders' roles/behaviors are given as are all references from which the information came.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Wood samples were recovered from an unidentified whaling shipwreck site near the Pearl and Hermes Atoll located in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands. Samples are believed to represent the keel and garboard strake of the site where wood was buried beneath approximately five inches of sand. Wood samples were submitted for identification.

PROJECT Uploaded by: Mark McCoy

Public architecture has proven its utility as a metric for the materialization of religious authority however archaeologists have been less successful at identifying how ideology is materialized outside of formal ritual settings. Here we address the question of how religious laws that dictated separation of people and activities – known as the kapu system – influenced the way homes were built in pre-European contact era Hawai‘i. On the landscape scale, we consider three variables that could be...

PROJECT Uploaded by: Paula Sabloff

Excel files describing all possible statuses and associated roles/behaviors for 10 premodern states (Aztec, Benin, Late Shang China, Old Kingdom Egypt, Mycenaean Greece, Protohistoric Hawaii, Inca, Old Babylonia, Late Classic Maya, and Zapotec) and 1 premodern society (Iceland).