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Feathered Gods and Fishhooks: An Introduction to Hawaiian Archaeology and Prehistory

Kirch, Patrick Vinton

University of Hawaiʻi Press, 1985

Pre-contact Hawaiian settlement patterns and land use; archaeological context for Lahaina's cultural landscape

Cited in the thesis endnotes alongside Beamer’s No Makou Ka Mana for pre-contact settlement context. Kirch’s work on irrigated agriculture and coastal aquaculture systems (pages 189-212) provides the archaeological framework for understanding the ahupua’a land division system and the resource networks that sustained pre-contact Hawaiian population at Lahaina.