A CHRONOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ON HAWAIʻI ISLAND

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dc.contributor.advisorQuintus, Seth
dc.contributor.authorAgruss, Emma
dc.contributor.departmentAnthropology
dc.date.accessioned2024-10-09T23:45:40Z
dc.date.available2024-10-09T23:45:40Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.degreeM.A.
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10125/108657
dc.subjectArchaeology
dc.subjectagriculture
dc.subjectarchaeology
dc.subjectBayesian
dc.subjectHawaiʻi
dc.subjectpolitical economy
dc.titleA CHRONOLOGY OF AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT ON HAWAIʻI ISLAND
dc.typeThesis
dcterms.abstractThe dryland agricultural systems of Hawaiʻi island are recognized as some of the most intensive in the Pacific. Constituted by a variety of infrastructural types, including long embankments, mounds, and terraces, these dryland systems have been the subject of archaeological research for several decades. Over this time, a body of radiocarbon dates has been collected relating directly to these different kinds of infrastructure, providing an opportunity to synthesize and compare agricultural chronologies for different forms of infrastructure and different areas of the island. This thesis aims to address this goal by building chronologies of agricultural development on Hawaiʻi Island using Bayesian statistics and joint posterior modeling. Using these methods, I show that there was no concentrated region of development at any time, as seen through any individual infrastructure type. Instead, the agricultural development was widely shared, and construction featured a high degree of continuity from the 16th century through the historic period, island-wide.
dcterms.extent85 pages
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherUniversity of Hawai'i at Manoa
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