Legacy of the Landscape: An Illustrated Guide to Hawaiian Archaeological Sites - Rilegato

Kirch, Patrick Vinton; Babineau, Therese I.

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0824818164 ISBN 13: 9780824818166

Casa editrice: Univ of Hawaii Pr, 1996

Riassunto

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.

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L'autore:

Patrick Vinton Kirch holds the Class of 1954 Distinguished Teaching Chair at the University of California at Berkeley.

Product Description:

Book by Kirch Patrick Vinton Babineau Therese I

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Univ of Hawaii Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0824818164
• ISBN 13: 9780824818166
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 130