dc.contributor.author |
Ladefoged, Thegn |
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dc.contributor.author |
Kirch, PV |
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dc.contributor.author |
Gon, SO |
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dc.contributor.author |
Chadwick, OA |
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dc.contributor.author |
Hartshorn, AS |
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dc.contributor.author |
Vitousek, PM |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2012-05-27T20:37:37Z |
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dc.date.issued |
2009 |
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dc.identifier.citation |
JOURNAL OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL SCIENCE 36(10):2374-2383 01 Oct 2009 |
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dc.identifier.issn |
0305-4403 |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://hdl.handle.net/2292/18603 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Intensive agricultural systems interact strongly and reciprocally with features of the lands they occupy, and with features of the societies that they support. We modeled the distribution of two forms of preEuropean contact intensive agriculture – irrigated pondfields and rain-fed dryland systems – across the Hawaiian archipelago using a GIS approach based on climate, hydrology, topography, substrate age, and soil fertility. Model results closely match the archaeological evidence in defined locations. On a broader scale, we calculate that the youngest island, Hawai’i, could have supported 572 km2 of intensive agriculture, 97% as rain-fed dryland field systems, while Kaua’i, the oldest island, could have supported 58 km2 , all as irrigated wetland systems. Irrigated systems have higher, more reliable yields and lower labor requirements than rain-fed dryland systems, so the total potential yield from Kaua’i (w49k metric tons) was almost half that of Hawai’i (w97k metric tons), although Kaua’i systems required only w0.05 of the agricultural labor (w8400 workers, versus w165,000 on Hawai’i) to produce the crops. We conclude that environmental constraints to intensive agriculture across the archipelago created asymmetric production efficiencies, and therefore varying potentials for agricultural surplus. The implications both for the emergence of complex sociopolitical formations and for anthropogenic transformation of Hawaiian ecosystems are substantial. |
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dc.publisher |
Elsevier Ltd. |
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dc.relation.ispartofseries |
Journal of Archaeological Science |
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dc.rights |
Items in ResearchSpace are protected by copyright, with all rights reserved, unless otherwise indicated. Previously published items are made available in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. |
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dc.rights.uri |
https://researchspace.auckland.ac.nz/docs/uoa-docs/rights.htm |
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dc.title |
Opportunities and constraints for intensive agriculture in the Hawaiian archipelago prior to European contact |
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dc.type |
Journal Article |
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pubs.begin-page |
2374 |
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pubs.volume |
36 |
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dc.rights.holder |
Copyright: Elsevier Ltd. |
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pubs.end-page |
2383 |
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dc.rights.accessrights |
http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/RestrictedAccess |
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pubs.subtype |
Article |
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pubs.elements-id |
86925 |
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pubs.org-id |
Arts |
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pubs.org-id |
Social Sciences |
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pubs.org-id |
Anthropology |
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pubs.record-created-at-source-date |
2010-09-01 |
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