Hawaii’s Past in a World of Pacific Islands (SAA Current Perspectives)

By James Bayman, Thomas S. Dye, James M. Bayman

Given its relatively late encounter with the West, Hawaii offers an exciting opportunity to study a society whose traditional lifeways and technologies were recorded in native oral traditions and written documents before they were changed by contact with non-Polynesian cultures. This book in the SAA Press Current Perspectives Series chronicles the role of archaeology in constructing a narrative of Hawaii?s cultural past, focusing on material evidence dating from the Polynesians? first arrival on Hawaii?s shores about a millennium ago to the early decades of settlement by Americans and Europeans in the nineteenth century. A final chapter discusses new directions taken by native Hawaiians toward changing the practice of archaeology in the islands today.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0932839541
• ISBN13: 9780932839541
• Release Date: March 2013
• Publisher: Society for American Archaeology
• Length: 170 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.4" x 6.0"