Garden Offerings in the Kona Field System, Hawai'i Island: A Fine-Grained Chronology and Its Implications

McCoy, Mark D.; Cheng, Hai; Mulrooney, Mara; Ladefoged, Thegn N.

doi:10.1017/aaq.2022.3

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“…On the small, isolated island of Nihoa, Hawai'i, the abandonment of permanent settlements can be glimpsed through the conspicuous ending to coral offerings in temple sites. It is supposed that these settlements were abandoned due to less frequent voyages to and from the island (McCoy et al, 2022). The almost 6000 years' cycle of human presence and abandonments can also be seen on the island of Stromboli, an active volcanic island at the northern edge of Italy's Aeolian archipelago.…”

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The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

Hu¹

2023

Shima

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Islands have long been alluring to sojourners from outside, especially when they are, or are assumed to have been, abandoned. The island lure becomes more powerful when the abandonment is represented in the media in ways that evoke compelling affective responses. Against this background, I intend to critically examine the affective mediascapes of abandoned islands by focusing on three Chinese examples. I argue that it is necessary and possible to de-affect the media lure of abandoned islands in a place-specific way and probe for alternative affective responses in relation to one or several dominant affects in a given context.

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The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

Hu¹

2023

Shima

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“…Furthermore, coral has long been recognised by archaeologists as a construction material (gravel, blocks, slabs) in religious and funerary architectures. Uranium series method was successfully applied to both dedicatory branch offerings and cut‐and‐dressed stones in the foundation of Polynesian temples in Hawaii (Dye, 2012; Kirch & Sharp, 2005; Kirch et al., 2015; McCoy et al., 2009, 2022; Weisler et al., 2006), the Society Islands (Sharp et al., 2010), as well as constructions in Micronesia (McCoy et al., 2016; Richards et al., 2015) to assess the emergence of political and religious powers among chiefdoms.…”

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The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific

Molle¹,

Lagarde

Wright³

2023

Archaeology in Oceania

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The Pacific Islands offer a variety of marine environments providing peoples in the present and past with abundant coral materials, a "stone from the sea". Archaeologists have long recognised the importance of coral in ancient contexts, whether as gravel, natural branches, squared blocks or cut-and-dress slabs. Coral was also used to manufacture tools such as files or pounders and incorporated in monumental ceremonial architecture as a favoured construction material and foundation offerings. However, Pacific Islanders also employed coral material for other ritual applications that remain overlooked in the literature. In this article, we consider the multiple uses of coral in the archaeological and ethnographic records of three Pacific regions: Central-East Polynesia (CEP), New Caledonia and the Torres Strait Islands. This includes offering of coral branches, sometimes associated with cairns, paraphernalia and magic stones, also production of coral lime for body ornamentation. Using these case studies, we consider material selection, modes of deposition, archaeological and ethnographic contexts, associations with other features and artefacts, before interrogating the potential significance of these unrealised datasets. By doing so, we shed new light on the ritual value of coral and reflect on the symbolic nature and function of this material.

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Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society

Parton,

Clark

2024

J Archaeol Method Theory

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The recognition of low-density urbanisation has been important in documenting how diverse human settlements generated enduring social and economic change. In tropical regions, the key challenges to studying low-density urbanisation have been the difficulty in acquiring past built environment data and integrating the frameworks that illuminate the social behaviours intrinsic to urbanisation. The introduction of lidar mapping and urban science methods has proven revolutionary in our understanding of low-density urbanisation as demonstrated by emerging research on settlements and states in Mesoamerica and Southeast Asia. These studies draw on urban theory to highlight patterns in the built environment associated with profound societal changes including the rise of social institutions, agglomeration effects, and ongoing settlement growth. Here, we present an approach that combines lidar survey and archaeological fieldwork with recent developments in urban science to understand the built environment of Tongatapu; the location of an archaic state whose influence spread across the southwest Pacific Ocean between the thirteenth and nineteenth centuries a.d. Quantitative results show—for the first time—that settlements on a Pacific island were urbanised in a distinct low-density form and that the processes of urbanisation began prior to state development. This study highlights the potential contribution of Pacific landscapes to urban science and the low-density settlement phenomena given the presence of large populations, hierarchical societies, and vast distributions of archaeological built remains on many island groups.

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Garden Offerings in the Kona Field System, Hawai'i Island: A Fine-Grained Chronology and Its Implications

Cited by 3 publications

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The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

The Affective Mediascapes of Chinese Island Abandonment

The sacred stone from the sea. Archaeological and ethnographic perspectives on the ritual value of coral across the Pacific

Low-Density Urbanisation: Prestate Settlement Growth in a Pacific Society

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