Soil Chemistry and Agriculture: Analysis of Five Archaeological Sites on the Island of Hawai'i
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06/01/84 12:00 AM
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1
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64
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76
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In 1981, the Bernice P. Bishop Museum conducted
an extensive archaeological survey and excavations in
the Waimea-Kawaihae region of the District of South
Kohala, Hawai'i Island (Clark and Kirch 1983). A key
research problem addressed during that project
centered on the exploration of the nature and
variability of prehistoric Hawaiian agricultural
practices. It became important, therefore, to be
able to identify agricultural soils. To this end, we
undertook limited chemical analyses of soils from
selected archaeological sites and associated control
areas. These sites ranged from clearly identified
agricultural fields to hypothesized farming areas.
The results of these analyses, summarized in this
paper, sugge~t a pattern of chemical differentiation
between agricultural and non-agricultural areas.
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Soil Chemistry, Agriculture, Hawaii$Archaeological Sites
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