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Dryland agricultural expansion and intensification in Kohala, Hawai'i island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Thegn N. Ladefoged ,
Michael W. Graves  and
Richard P. Jennings
Thegn N. Ladefoged
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected]
Michael W. Graves
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii, 2424 Maile Way, Porteous 346, Honolulu HI 96822, USA
Richard P. Jennings
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand. E-mail: [email protected]
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Intensified dryland agriculture was a component of the late prehistoric Hawaiian subsistence base. Which environmental factors permitted, encouraged, restricted, blocked the spreading of intensive agriculture into new areas of fields? A GIS study of the great field system at Kohala on the leeward side of Hawai'i Island explores the controlling variables.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 270 , December 1996 , pp. 861 - 880
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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