Kau District (Geographic Keyword)

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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...