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Abstracts of the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology Annual Conferences ABSTRACTS OF THE SOCIETY FOR HAWAIIAN ARCHAEOLOGY ANNUAL CONFERENCES Peter R. Mills, Sara Collins and Arleen Garcia-Herbst Compilers and Editors Society for Hawaiian Archaeology 2014 2 Table of Contents ...................................................................................................................... 1 1st Hawaiian Archaeological Conference Kīlauea Military Camp Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, March 19 & 20, 1988 ....................................................................................... 4 2nd Annual SHA Conference, Maui Community College, Kahalui, Maui, March 31- April 2, 1989 ......................................................................................................................................... 6 3rd Annual SHA Conference, Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaiʻi, March 24 - 25, 1990 10 4th Annual SHA Conference, UH Mānoa, May 25, 1991 ..................................................... 18 5th Annual SHA Conference, Kauaʻi Community College, March 27-29, 1992 ................ 23 6th Annual SHA Conference, Kaluakoʻi, Molokaʻi, April 2-4, 1993 ................................... 40 7th Annual SHA Conference, UH Hilo, April 1-3, 1994 ....................................................... 56 8th Annual SHA Conference, Kapiʻolani Community College, Oʻahu, April 8-9, 1995 ... 68 9th Annual SHA Conference, Aston Wailea Resort, Maui, April 26-28, 1996 ................... 85 10th Annual SHA Conference, Kauaʻi Community College, April 11-13, 1997 ................. 98 11th Annual SHA Conference, King Kamehameha Kona Beach Hotel, Kailua-Kona, April 3-5, 1998 ....................................................................................................................... 111 12th Annual Hawaiian Archaeology Conference, Kapiolani Community College, Honolulu Hawaiʻi April 9-11, 1999 ...................................................................................... 122 13th Annual SHA Conference, Kīlauea Military Camp, Oct. 6-8, 2000 ........................... 135 14th Annual SHA Conference, Maui Community College, Kahului, Maui, October 5-7, 2001 ......................................................................................................................................... 143 15th Annual SHA Conference, Kauaʻi Community College Puhi, Kauaʻi, October 11-13, 2002 ......................................................................................................................................... 152 16th Annual SHA Conference, Windward Community College, Kāneʻohe, Oʻahu, October 24-26, 2003............................................................................................................... 168 17th Annual SHA Conference, King Kamehameha Hotel, Kailua-Kona, November 12-14, 2004 ......................................................................................................................................... 183 3 18th Annual SHA Conference, Raddison Kauaʻi Beach Hotel, Līhue, Kauaʻi, October 6-9, 2005 ......................................................................................................................................... 193 19th Annual SHA Conference, Maui Community College, Kahului, October 6-8, 2006 202 20th Annual SHA Conference, Outrigger Keauhou Beach Resort, Kailua-Kona, October 19-21, 2007.............................................................................................................................. 214 21st Annual SHA Conference, University of Hawaiʻi at Hilo, October 17-19, 2008 ........ 224 22nd Annual SHA Conference, UH Mānoa, October 23-25, 2009 ..................................... 237 23rd Annual SHA Conference, Aston Aloha Beach Hotel, Kauaʻi, October 15-17, 2010 246 24th Annual SHA Conference, UH Maui College, Sept. 30-Oct. 2, 2011 .......................... 259 25th Annual SHA Conference, Keauhou Beach Resort, Hawaiʻi Island, Oct 19-21, 2012 ................................................................................................................................................. 270 26th Annual SHA Conference, Bishop Museum, Oʻahu, Oct. 12-13, 2013 ....................... 279 27th Annual SHA Conferene, Hale ʻŌleleo, Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, UH Hilo, Oct. 10-12, 2014 ................................................................. 292 4 1st Hawaiian Archaeological Conference Kīlauea Military Camp Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, March 19 & 20, 1988 (Only paper titles available) March 19 0800 Registration 0830 General Welcome: Bion Griffin 0845 Topical Papers (Time Limit 15 Minutes Each) 1. One Hand Clapping: The Crisis in Hawaiian Archaeology. Rob Hommon 2. Four Stages in the History of Hawaiian Archaeology. Tom Dye 3. Oʻahu Heiau Sites. Buddy Neller 4. Ti Ovens in Hawaiʻi: Where Are They? Barry Fankhauser 5. Experimental Voyaging and Polynesian Settlement. Ben Finney 1030 – 1045 Coffee Break 6. An Overview of Kaʻū District and Some Thoughts on Island-Wide Settlement Patterns. Ross Cordy 7. Marine Exploitation at Kahaluʻu: What Can We Learn from Marine Transects and Fishermen. Craig Severance 8. Characteristics of Land Commission Award in Pelekunu Valley, Molokaʻi. Marion Kelly 9. Cultivating the Past: A Personal Ethnohistory of Taro in Hawaiʻi. Hal Hammatt 10. Prehistoric and Ecological Changes in the Southern Marquesas. Barry Rolett. 1200 Lunch 1300 First Discussion Session DLNR Rules and Regulations on State Historic Preservation. Moderators: Ross Cordy & Paul Cleghorn (Coffee break follows) 1350 Overview of the field trip. Gary Somers. 1430 Commence field trip (return about 1930). Gary Somers will lead the field trip. We travel in the KMC buses, with an expected return after dark. Please pack a lunch or be prepared to go into Hilo for a late dinner. March 20 0800 Research Reports (Time limit 15 minutes each) 1. Niʻihau: a Glimpse at Its Archaeological Record. Bill Kikuchi 5 2. Lānaʻi Prehistory: A Preliminary Report on the Settlement and Chronology at Mānele Bay and Hulpoʻe Bay Areas. Steve Athens and Mike Kaschko 3. Settlement Pattern Analysis in Hawaiʻi Volcanoes National Park, Hawaiʻi. Thegn Ladefoged 4. Waikoloa Abrader Quarry Study. Peter Jensen, William Shapiro & Alan Haun 5. Large-scale Surface Reconnaissance Survey: Hawaiian Riviera and Farms of Kapua (tentative). Alan Haun & Alan Walker 6. The Other Side of Maui: A Summary of the 1987 Field Season. Paul Cleghorn 7. Pololū Lithics Analysis. Lisa Hacskaylo 1000 – 1015: Coffee Break 8. Hale O Lono Restoration. Rudy Mitchell 9. Kakakʻako Testing and Monitoring Project. Bert Davis 10. Pōkaʻi Bary, ʻŌhikilolo, Waikele, and RYM Kāneʻohe: Monitoring, Reconnaissance, and Data Recovery. Mary Riford 11. West Beach. Bert Davis 12. West Loch. Paul Rosendahl 1200 Lunch 1300 Human Disinterment: Research Reports 1. Hawaiian Mortuary Practices, West Hawaiʻi Island. June Cleghorn 2. Kapalua Disinterment Project. Theresa Donham. 3. Report on the Honokohua Burials from a Community Perspective. Leslie Kuloloio 4. Working with Advocate Groups: OHA, the Makena Hui, and the Kapalua, Maui Disinterment Project. Peggy Rosendahl. 1430 – 1445: Coffee Break 1445 General Discussion: Human Disinterment and Reinterment. Moderators: Ben Finney and Bill Kikuchi 1545 General Discussion: Future Issues in Hawaiian Archaeology Moderator: Michael Graves 1645 Closing Remarks and Suggestions for the Second Conference on Hawaiian Archaeology, Maui, 1989 1700 Pau 6 2nd Annual SHA Conference, Maui Community College, Kahalui, Maui, March 31- April 2, 1989 PAPERS ON METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES Nā Malā Pōhaku (Gardens of Stone): The archaeology of dryland agricultural systems in leeward Oʻahu Nathaniel Pak, Perry A. Tourtellotte, L.J. Moana Lee, and W. Bruce Masse, Hawaiʻi State Historic Preservation It has been approximately 20 years since the pioneering archaeological studies at Lapakahi (Hawaiʻi Island) and Mākaha Valley (Oʻahu) demonstrated the seeming importance of dryland agriculture in late Hawaiian prehistory. However, with few exceptions, the study of dryland agriculture has been largely conducted in piecemeal fashion and with insufficient detail. Our ongoing inventory survey of Hawaiian Homes Lands properties Nānākuli Valley on Oʻahuʻs Waiʻanae coast has provided the rare opportunity to study a complete set of inland dryland agricultural systems, including the rigorous examination of a portion of one system. This paper discusses our preliminary findings, and provides a forum to discuss the methodology of the archaeological study of dryland agriculture. Techniques for estimating the duration of cultural periods with radiocarbon and problems with their application in Hawaiʻi Tom Dye, Hawaiʻi Pacific College Archaeologists may use radiocarbon dates to (1) date specific events such as the use of a fireplace, or (2) estimate the duration of some phenomenon, such as the length of occupation of a settlement, or a cultural period. In both cases, it generally happens that additional samples increase the range of possible dates, rather than confining it. In all other branches of science increasing sample size gives more precision to an estimate, not less. A technique for solving this problem when estimating the duration of archaeological phenomena has been proposed by Barbara Ottaway of the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Ottaway’s technique is illustrated with radiocarbon dates from the Lapita and Polynesian Plain Ware periods of Western Polynesia. Possible uses of the technique in Hawaiʻi are discussed and limitations in its useto estimate the duration
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