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Residential Chronology, Household Subsistence, and the Emergence of Socioeconomic Territories in Leeward Kohala, Hawai'i Island

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 July 2016

Julie S Field ,
Thegn N Ladefoged ,
Warren D Sharp  and
Patrick V Kirch
Julie S Field
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, The Ohio State University, 4034 Smith Laboratory, 174 W. 18th Avenue, Columbus, Ohio 43210, USA. Email: [email protected].
Thegn N Ladefoged
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Private Bag 92019, The University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Warren D Sharp
Affiliation:
Berkeley Geochronology Center, 2455 Ridge Rd., Berkeley, California 94709, USA.
Patrick V Kirch
Affiliation:
Departments of Anthropology and Integrative Biology, The University of California, Berkeley, 232 Kroeber Hall, Berkeley, California 94720, USA.
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Previous research in leeward Kohala, Hawai'i Island, has determined that the Leeward Kohala Field System (LKFS), a vast agricultural zone covering ∼60 km2, developed between the 14th and 18th centuries AD. Additional analyses have documented the establishment of traditional socioeconomic territories, known as ahupua'a, in tandem with the expansion of the field system. This article further refines the chronology of human settlement and socioeconomic development in leeward Kohala through the analysis of deposits associated with prehistoric residences. Based upon survey and excavation, we present a chronology for Hawaiian household transition and economic development in 2 study areas of leeward Kohala, spanning the field system to the coast. Forty-nine radiocarbon dates from short-lived plant materials and 5 230Th dates on corals from residential and ritual features are synthesized into 3 temporal periods, which allow for comparison of residential size, distribution, number, and associated faunal materials from archaeological deposits. Changes in household composition and economy are suggested to have developed in tandem with the establishment of individual ahupua'a and land divisions within them, and the further development of agricultural production.

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Radiocarbon , Volume 53 , Issue 4 , 2011 , pp. 605 - 627
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Copyright © The Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

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