Understanding variability in the hinterlands: settlement and subsistence in Miloli'i, Kaua'i, Hawaiian Islands. Issue 3 (10th February 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: KAHN, JENNIFER G.; KAWELU, KATHY; WICHMAN, VICTORIA; CARPENTER, ALAN B.; MOORE, SUMMER; HUNT, TERRY
• Is Part Of: Archaeology in Oceania. Volume 51:Issue 3(2016)
• Page Start: 196
• Page End: 213
• Publication Date: 2016-02-10
• Subjects: Hawaiian Islands -- core versus periphery -- settlement chronology -- landscape change -- access to raw materials -- social complexity; Archaeology -- Islands of the Pacific -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Australia -- Periodicals; Physical anthropology -- Islands of the Pacific -- Periodicals; Physical anthropology -- Australia -- Periodicals; Anthropology, Physical -- Southeast Asia -- Periodicals; Anthropology, Physical -- Australia -- Periodicals; Anthropology, Physical -- Pacific Islands -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Southeast Asia -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Australia -- Periodicals; Archaeology -- Pacific Islands -- Periodicals; 990
• DOI: 10.1002/arco.5085
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0728-4896

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Recent archaeological excavations in Miloli'i Valley, Kaua'i are discussed to provide data from an isolated and marginal hinterland, far removed from the island's political centres. We develop a chronological sequence of site construction and use and discuss the nature of pre‐contact Hawaiian settlement and subsistence. We also outline elements of human–environment interactions from the settlement period to the protohistoric era, and provide tentative comparisons of the Miloli'i hinterland sequence with those from core areas in the late prehistoric political hierarchy. Our case study highlights the degree to which inter‐ and intra‐island variability remain relatively under‐studied in the Hawaiian context.