Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua

Creator(s): Mark McCoy

Year: 2018

Summary

metadata

File Name: Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua.csv

Description: General locations where royal centers and sled tracks (holua) have been reported in the Hawaiian Islands. To mask the locations of archaeological and cultural sites points are derived from placenames in the general area of features from the Geographic Place Names for the State of Hawaii from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS).

Layer Type: Point

Data Source: http://geonames.usgs.gov/domestic/download_data.htm

Publication: McCoy, M.D. 2018. Celebration as a Source of Power in Archaic States: Archaeological and historical evidence for the Makahiki festival in the Hawaiian Islands. World Archaeology.Volume 50, Issue 1.

Attributes:

SITE_TYPE: Indicates if location is assocaited with a royal center or a holua (sled track). Only 19 out of 35 holua represented in this dataset.

FEATURE_NA Feature Name

FEATURE_CL Feature Class (https://geonames.usgs.gov/apex/f?p=gnispq:8)

COUNTY_NAM County Name

PRIMARY_LA Latitude Coordinates of feature (DMS)

PRIM_LONG Longitude Coordinates of feature (DMS)

PRIM_LAT_D Latitude Coordinates of feature (Decimal Degrees)

PRIM_LONG1 Longitude Coordinates of feature (Decimal Degrees)

MAP_NAME USGS 1:24,000 quad map on which feature is shown

Easting_Z4N UTM location of feature, NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_4N

Northing_Z4N UTM location of feature, NAD_1983_UTM_Zone_4N

Date created: 23 January 2018

Contact (McCoy, M.D.): Mark D. McCoy, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Southern Methodist University,

P.O. Box 750336, Dallas, TX 75275-0336; office: 214.768.2940.

email: mdmccoy@smu.edu

Contact (oringal placename GIS): Hawaii Statewide GIS Program, Office of Planning, State of Hawaii,

PO Box 2359, Honolulu, Hi. 96804; (808) 587-2846.

email: gis@hawaii.gov

Cite this Record

Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua. Mark McCoy. 2018 ( tDAR id: 440573) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8PK0JX5

Spatial Reference System & Projection: NAD 83

Currentness & Update Notes: McCoy, M.D. (2018). Celebration as a Source of Power in Archaic States: Archaeological and historical evidence for the Makahiki festival in the Hawaiian Islands. World Archaeology (Special Issue: The Archaeology of Celebrations). Volume 50, Issue 1.

Data Set Structure

Measurement Column
Count Column
Coded Column
Filename Column
Integration Column (has Ontology)

Table Information: Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua

Column Name Data Type Type Category Coding Sheet Ontology Search
PRIM_LAT_D DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PRIM_LONG_ VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PRIMARY_LA VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
COUNTY_NAM VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FEATURE_CL VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
FEATURE_NA VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
SITE_TYPE VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Northing_Z4N DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
Easting_Z4N DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
MAP_NAME VARCHAR  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true
PRIM_LONG1 DOUBLE  Uncoded Value uncategorized none none true

Keywords

Culture
Hawaiian

Investigation Types
Archaeological Overview

File Information

  Name Size Creation Date Date Uploaded Access
Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua.csv 4.72kb Jan 23, 2018 Jan 23, 2018 12:04:57 PM Public
Hawaiian Royal Centers and Holua
  • Translated version Hawaiian_Royal_Centers_Holua_translated.xlsx (7.48kb)
    Data column(s) in this dataset have been associated with coding sheet(s) and translated: