A regional synthesis of Hamakua District, Hawaii Island

Author:

Cordy, Ross H., Hawaii Historic Preservation Division,

Title:

A regional synthesis of Hamakua District, Hawaii Island

Year:

1994

Pages:

x, 146 p.

Subject:

Archaeological surveying Hamakua District Archaeological surveying Waipio Valley Hamakua District antiquities Waipio Valley antiquities Hawaiians social life and customs Hawaii history

Summary:

Hamakua faces the sea on the northeastern end of the island, well north of Hilo. It is one of the wet windward districts and one of the six traditional districts of Hawaii Island. Hamakua also includes the large valleys of Waipio and Waimanu beyond Honokaa, the often snow-capped Mauna Kea, and even extends beyond Mauna Kea across the center of the island to the crater of Mauna Loa where Hamakua looks down into Kona. This paper is a synthesis of settlement patterns and general historic preservation problems relevant to this entire district. The focus is on prehistoric and early historic time periods--the periods of traditional Hawaiian settlement. In this paper, Hamakua is divided into two major regions: (1) West Hamakua, which includes the north slopes of the Kohala Mountain with its large windward valleys and (2) East Hamakua, which includes three subregions, (A) the lower windward slopes of Mauna Kea, (B) the upper slopes of Mauna Kea, and (C) the interior plateau (Saddle) of Pohakuloa and the slopes of Mauna Loa.

Collection:

Monographs