New archaeological insights into food and status: a case study from pre-contact Hawaii

O'Day, Sharyn Jones

doi:10.1080/0043824021000026468

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“…Another potential source of data is the archaeological record. Despite a strong understanding of prehistoric settlement patterns in early Austronesian societies of Southeast Asia (Bellwood, 2007) and Oceania (Kirch, 2000), the archaeological record provides evidence for only indirect inferences about land tenure norms and their transitions in a few very specialised cases (Dye, 2010;Earle, 1998Earle, , 2000Kirch & O'Day, 2003;McCoy et al, 2011).…”

Section: Evolution Of Land Tenure Normsmentioning

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“…We labelled Tahiti an individual (I) ownership society despite restrictions on the ability to own land based on socioeconomic position. There are a number of papers that address the evolution of elite land tenure (Dye, 2010;Earle, 1998Earle, , 2000Kirch & O'Day, 2003;McCoy et al, 2011), including a recent one (Currie, 2013) that adopts a phylogenetic perspective similar to ours.…”

Section: Land Tenure Datamentioning

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The sequential evolution of land tenure norms

Kushnick

Gray

Jordan

2014

Evolution and Human Behavior

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a b s t r a c t a r t i c l e i n f oLand tenure norms are fundamental to our understanding of the evolution of human cooperation and the emergence of inequality in large-scale societies. A prime example of niche construction, their emergence transformed the selective pressures facing early cultivators. We use phylogenetic methods to reconstruct the evolutionary trajectories of land tenure norms in 97 Austronesian societies. We defined land tenure norms as the primary means by which people use, possess, and redistribute land. Based on existing ethnographic accounts, we coded each society as having one of the following primary land tenure norms: none (N), group (G), kin-group (K), and individual (I). Our analyses of phylogenetic and geographic signal suggest that vertical transmission patterned land tenure norms to a greater degree than horizontal transmission. We assessed the relative strength of plausible models of land tenure evolution using maximum likelihood analyses with lexical and time-scaled trees. Surprisingly, they revealed strong support for a model that allows sequential gains and losses along the pathway N-I-G-K. Our probabilistic reconstruction of ancestral states decisively rejected the claim that Proto-Malayo-Polynesian society was marked by G or K. Our results demonstrate the power of "virtual archaeology" for revealing the dynamics of social evolution.Crown

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Section: Evolution Of Land Tenure Normsmentioning

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Section: Land Tenure Datamentioning

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The sequential evolution of land tenure norms

Kushnick

Gray

Jordan

2014

Evolution and Human Behavior

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“…1). Archaeological excavations in residential, agricultural, and ritual sites have elucidated site chronology and function (10)(11)(12)(13). Archaeological features associated with prehistoric habitation consist of dry-stone masonry enclosures, shelters, walls, and similar features, which were the foundations for functionally differentiated houses with perishable pole-and-thatch superstructures.…”

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Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian landscape

Kirch

Hartshorn

Chadwick

et al. 2004

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Contributed by P. V. Kirch, May 15, 2004 Beginning ca. A.D. 1400, Polynesian farmers established permanent settlements along the arid southern flank of Haleakala Volcano, Maui, Hawaiian Islands; peak population density (43-57 persons per km 2 ) was achieved by A.D. 1700 -1800, and it was followed by the devastating effects of European contact. This settlement, based on dryland agriculture with sweet potato as a main crop, is represented by >3,000 archaeological features investigated to date. Geological and environmental factors are the most important influence on Polynesian farming and settlement practices in an agriculturally marginal landscape. Interactions between lava flows, whose ages range from 3,000 to 226,000 years, and differences in rainfall create an environmental mosaic that constrained precontact Polynesian farming practices to a zone defined by aridity at low elevation and depleted soil nutrients at high elevation. Within this productive zone, however, large-scale agriculture was concentrated on older, tephra-blanketed lava flows; younger flows were reserved for residential sites, small ritual gardens, and agricultural temples.

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“…4% Green, 1976a,b;Kirch, 1983;McCoy & Cleghorn, 1988;Yen, 1976 15.8% Clark & Michlovic, 1996;Davidson, 1969;Hunt & Kirch, 1988;Janetski, 1980;Kirch & Hunt, 1993;Kirch et al, 1990;Lohse, 1980;Nagaoka, 1993;Smith, 1976;Steadman, 1993bSteadman, , 2006Steadman & Pergill, 2004 Society 33.3% Davidson, 1967;Green & Green, 1967;Leach et al, 1984;Rappaport & Rappaport, 1967;Sinoto & McCoy, 1975;Steadman & Pahlavan, 1992 Burley, 1996aBurley, ,b, 1997Dye, 1987bDye, , 1996Poulsen, 1968Poulsen, , 1987Spennemann, 1989;Steadman, 1993a;…”

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“…A detailed study of the differences in faunal assemblages between different status households in Hawaii showed that chicken remains were often found in elite household contexts but were not recovered from the residences of commoners (Kirch and Jones O'Day, 2004). This suggests that differences in the social value of chicken may influence the density and distribution of chicken remains across the landscape.…”

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Counting your chickens: density and distribution of chicken remains in archaeological sites of Oceania

Storey

Ladefoged

Matisoo‐Smith

2008

Intl J of Osteoarchaeology

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In an effort to document the density and distribution of prehistoric chicken (Gallus gallus) remains across Oceania, this paper presents the analysis of reported faunal remains from over 500 individual archaeological and natural sites from across the Pacific. We examined the presence and absence of chicken in secure prehistoric contexts and factors which may account for this, including human choice, taphonomy, the influence of other animals on extinction events, differential access to resources, and purposeful extirpation. This research highlights the need for full study of the large percentage (18%) of Pacific avifauna collections which have yet to be analysed, to clarify the range and importance of chicken in prehistory.

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New archaeological insights into food and status: a case study from pre-contact Hawaii

Cited by 102 publications

References 7 publications

The sequential evolution of land tenure norms

The sequential evolution of land tenure norms

Environment, agriculture, and settlement patterns in a marginal Polynesian landscape

Counting your chickens: density and distribution of chicken remains in archaeological sites of Oceania

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