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9780520223479 | Univ of California Pr, May 1, 2000, cover price $85.00

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9780520234611 | Univ of California Pr, September 1, 2001, cover price $42.95

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This text aims to combine all the evidence for Hawaiian prehistory into a coherent pattern. It presents a balanced cultural history of the Hawaiian group of islands, from the first Polynesian settlement to the time of European contact and is grounded in the archaeological evidence. (view table of contents)

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9780824809812 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 1985, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: This text aims to combine all the evidence for Hawaiian prehistory into a coherent pattern.

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9780824819385 | Reprint edition (Univ of Hawaii Pr, March 1, 1998), cover price $31.99

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Product Description: This is the first account of the Lapita peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who over the last 4000 years colonized the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Hawaii...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9781557861122 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1996, cover price $81.95 | About this edition: This is the first account of the Lapita peoples, the common ancestor of the Polynesians, Micronesians, and Austronesian-speaking Melanesians who over the last 4000 years colonized the islands of the Pacific, including New Zealand and territories as far afield as Fiji and Hawaii.

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9781577180364 | Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1996, cover price $52.95

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Product Description: Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public. This volume provides for the first time an authoritative handbook to the most important of these archaeological treasures...read more

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9780824818166 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $47.00 | About this edition: Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public.

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Product Description: Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public. This volume provides for the first time an authoritative handbook to the most important of these archaeological treasures...read more

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9780824817398 | Univ of Hawaii Pr, September 1, 1996, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Precontact Hawaiian civilization is represented by a rich legacy of archaeological sites, many of which have been preserved and are accessible to the public.

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Product Description: Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations. In this book, archaeologist Patrick Kirch challenges this "hydraulic hypothesis" and provides a more accurate and detailed account of the role of "wet" and "dry" cultivation systems in the development of complex sociopolitical structures...read more

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9780226437491 | Univ of Chicago Pr, January 1, 1995, cover price $80.00 | About this edition: Scholars and researchers have long believed that the ability to irrigate is crucial to the development of civilizations.

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Product Description: From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands. Reflecting many years of collaboration between Marshall Sahlins, a prominent social anthropologist, and Patrick V...read more

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9780226733661 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, June 1, 1994), cover price $43.00 | About this edition: From the late 1700s, Hawaiian society began to change rapidly as it responded to the growing world system of capital whose trade routes and markets crisscrossed the islands.

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Product Description: This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia. While the growth and development of complex social and political systems in this region have long interested anthropologists and ethnographers, the islands' rich sources of archaeological data have since been exploited...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780521273169 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 1989), cover price $78.00 | About this edition: This is an archaeological perspective on the elaborate system of chiefdoms found in the islands of Polynesia.

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