Farming in Hawai'i from Colonisation to Contact: Radiocarbon Chronology and Implicati ons for Cultural Change

Abstract

Eighty-four radiocarbon samples from irrigated and non-irrigated agricultural fie lds on Kaua'i, O'ahu, Moloka'i, and Hawai'i Islands have produced dates as early as A.D. 500. The deposition of agricultural charcoal is discussed, and the Hawaiian radiocarbon dates are used to evaluate certain culture hi storical models: it appears likely that both irrigated and non-irrigated agriculture were establis hed shortl y after coloaisatioa in both coastal aad inland locations aad that, as suggested by earlier researchers, windward areas were cultivated earlier, with leeward fields developing after A.D. 1200.

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