Settlement Chronologies and Shifting Resource Exploitation in Ka'ū District, Hawaiian Islands.
Museum collections contribute valuable information for cultural heritage, biological conservation, and the application of innovative and new methodological approaches. Collections deriving from archaeological projects in Hawai'i serve as a case in point. Here, we report on re-analysis of two Ka'ū Di...
| Publicado en: | Asian Perspectives: Journal of Archeology for Asia & the Pacific Vol. 55; no. 2; pp. 184 - 208 |
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University of Hawai'i
2016
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