Prehistoric upland bird hunters : archaeological inventory survey and testing for the MPRC project area and the Bobcat Trail Road, Pohakuloa Training Area, Island of Hawaii

Author:

Athens, John Stephen, Kaschko, Michael W., James, Helen F., International Archaeological Research Institute,, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Pacific Ocean Division,, United States Army Corps of Engineers, Honolulu District,

Title:

Prehistoric upland bird hunters : archaeological inventory survey and testing for the MPRC project area and the Bobcat Trail Road, Pohakuloa Training Area, Island of Hawaii

Year:

1989

Pages:

xi, 295 leaves

Subject:

Hawaii antiquities Archaeological surveying North Kona District Archaeological surveying Pohakuloa Bird trapping Pohakuloa Animal remains (archaeology) Paleontology Hawaii Island North Kona District antiquities Pohakuloa antiquities Historic sites

Summary:

An archaeological inventory survey was conducted under contract to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the proposed Multi-Purpose Range Complex (MPRC) and Bobcat Trail Road project areas at the Pohakuloa Training Area of Hawaii Island. The MPRC is an approximately 1,800 acre mostly forested parcel situated at an elevation of between 5,263 and 6,545 ft. Improvements are planned along a 12 mile stretch of the existing Bobcat Trail Road, and a short new alignment (2.25 miles) is also proposed. No archaeological sites were recorded along the Bobcat Trail Road, though survey of the new alignment section remains incomplete due to lack of ground reference points at the time the archaeological survey was conducted. A "planning reconnaissance" of the approximate location of the new alignment did not reveal any sites. However, there is still the possibility that one or two archaeological sites could be present once the actual corridor is determined. The MPRC survey located a total of 16 archaeological sites, one of which is a lava tube system containing abundant and unusually well-preserved paleontological bird bone remains. The other 15 sites consist of sinkholes and lava tubes used as prehistoric temporary shelters. Besides preparation of written descriptions, most of the sites were mapped, photographed, test excavated and/or sampled.

Date:

August 1989

Collection:

Monographs