Julie S. Field
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839895
- eISBN:
- 9780824868369
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839895.003.0002
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
This chapter places the ancient village of Nuʻalolo Kai in context, first by discussing its ecology and its geographical connection to the Nā Pali Coast. It then examines how Nuʻalolo Kai fits within ...
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This chapter places the ancient village of Nuʻalolo Kai in context, first by discussing its ecology and its geographical connection to the Nā Pali Coast. It then examines how Nuʻalolo Kai fits within Kauaʻi Island's archaeological chronologies, based on the idea that the earliest occupations date to the fourteenth-century period of expansion. Earlier use may well have occurred and been limited to episodic foraging trips to the Nuʻalolo Kai beachfront. The cultural features of Nuʻalolo Kai and nearby Nuʻalolo ʻĀina are also typical for Kauaʻi during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. After analyzing the archaeological features of Nuʻalolo Kai and Nuʻalolo ʻĀina, the chapter describes additional archaeological sites along the Nā Pali Coast.Less
This chapter places the ancient village of Nuʻalolo Kai in context, first by discussing its ecology and its geographical connection to the Nā Pali Coast. It then examines how Nuʻalolo Kai fits within Kauaʻi Island's archaeological chronologies, based on the idea that the earliest occupations date to the fourteenth-century period of expansion. Earlier use may well have occurred and been limited to episodic foraging trips to the Nuʻalolo Kai beachfront. The cultural features of Nuʻalolo Kai and nearby Nuʻalolo ʻĀina are also typical for Kauaʻi during the fifteenth to seventeenth centuries. After analyzing the archaeological features of Nuʻalolo Kai and Nuʻalolo ʻĀina, the chapter describes additional archaeological sites along the Nā Pali Coast.
Julie S. Field and Michael W. Graves (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- November 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780824839895
- eISBN:
- 9780824868369
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Hawai'i Press
- DOI:
- 10.21313/hawaii/9780824839895.001.0001
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Pacific Studies
At the base of a steep cliff towering some 500 feet above the coast of the remote Nā Pali district on the island of Kauaʻi, lies the spectacular historical and archaeological site at Nuʻalolo Kai. ...
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At the base of a steep cliff towering some 500 feet above the coast of the remote Nā Pali district on the island of Kauaʻi, lies the spectacular historical and archaeological site at Nuʻalolo Kai. First excavated by Bishop Museum archaeologists between 1958 and 1964, the site contained the well-preserved remains of one of the largest and most diverse arrays of traditional and historic artifacts ever found in Hawaiʻi. The house sites that are the focus of this book were built over five centuries of occupation and contained deeply buried, stratified deposits extending more than nine feet beneath the surface. The book details the work of the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa which has been compiling and studying the animal remains recovered from the archaeological excavations. The chapters discuss the range of foods eaten by Hawaiians, the ways in which particular species were captured and harvested, and how these practices might have evolved through changes in the climate and natural environment. Adding to this are analyses of a sophisticated material culture. Demonstrating that an increased preference for introduced animals effectively limited negative impacts on wild animal resources, the book argues that the Hawaiian community of Nuʻalolo Kai practiced a sustainable form of animal resource procurement and management for 500 years.Less
At the base of a steep cliff towering some 500 feet above the coast of the remote Nā Pali district on the island of Kauaʻi, lies the spectacular historical and archaeological site at Nuʻalolo Kai. First excavated by Bishop Museum archaeologists between 1958 and 1964, the site contained the well-preserved remains of one of the largest and most diverse arrays of traditional and historic artifacts ever found in Hawaiʻi. The house sites that are the focus of this book were built over five centuries of occupation and contained deeply buried, stratified deposits extending more than nine feet beneath the surface. The book details the work of the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa which has been compiling and studying the animal remains recovered from the archaeological excavations. The chapters discuss the range of foods eaten by Hawaiians, the ways in which particular species were captured and harvested, and how these practices might have evolved through changes in the climate and natural environment. Adding to this are analyses of a sophisticated material culture. Demonstrating that an increased preference for introduced animals effectively limited negative impacts on wild animal resources, the book argues that the Hawaiian community of Nuʻalolo Kai practiced a sustainable form of animal resource procurement and management for 500 years.
