History on Stones: A Newly-Discovered Petroglyph Site at Kahikinui, Maui

Abstract

Archaeologists have listed more than 135 petroglyph sites in the Hawaiian Islands (Cox and Stasack 1970; Kirch 1985:271), yet for the vast majority of these there is little or no settlement-pattern context, material culture assemblage, or temporal association. Thus Hawaiian petroglyphs have typically been studied as a thing apart, of interest primarily for their aesthetic qualities, rather than as integral components of larger cultural and social systems.