Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Figures, Plates, and Tables xiii
4. Preface to the Revised Edition xxiii
5. Preface to the First Edition xxv
6. Note on Hawaiian Words and Place Names xxvii
7. Prologue. An Island Civilization 1
8. Chapter 1. Unearthing the Hawaiian Past: The History of Archaeology in Ha wai‘i 7
9. Chapter 2. An Island World 27
10. Chapter 3. The Evidence of the Past 46
11. Chapter 4. Origins 63
12. Chapter 5. Hawaiian Culture History: An Overview 85
13. Chapter 6. History Sedimented in the Earth: Six Stratified Sites 116
14. Chapter 7. The Wet and the Dry: Hawaiian Agriculture, Aquaculture, and the Staple Economy 141
15. Chapter 8. “Like Shoals of Fish”: Population in Ancient Hawai‘i 177
16. Chapter 9. Technology, Craft Specialization, and the Wealth Economy 188
17. Chapter 10. The Archaeology of Everyday Life 220
18. Chapter 11. The Archaeology of Ritual, Power, and Death 246
19. Chapter 12. From Uka to Kai: Five Settlement Landscapes 281
20. Chapter 13. Transformations: The Archaeology of Culture Contact and Coloni alism 306
21. Chapter 14. The Archaeology of Hawai‘i Island 319
22. Chapter 15. The Archaeology of Maui, Lāna‘i, and Kaho‘olawe Islands 353
23. Chapter 16. The Archaeology of Moloka‘i Island 374
24. Chapter 17. The Archaeology of O‘ahu Island 386
25. Chapter 18. The Archaeology of Kaua‘i and Ni‘ihau Islands 406
26. Chapter 19. The Archaeology of Nihoa and Mokumanamana Islands 415
27. Epilogue 424
28. Glossary of Hawaiian Words 427
29. References 431
30. Index 485
31. ABOUT THE AUTHORS 497