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Temple Sites in Kahikinui, Maui, Hawaiian Islands: their orientations decoded

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, and Archaeological Research Facility, University of California, Berkeley CA94720, USA
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Hawaiian temple sites of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries have diverse orientations previously thought to be random. Using precise measurements and nineteenth-century native Hawaiian sources, the author shows that the temples cluster into groups whose orientation was deliberate and likely to relate to a particular god.

Keywords

Hawaiian Islandstemplespre-contactarchaeoastronomy
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Research
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Antiquity , Volume 78 , Issue 299 , March 2004 , pp. 102 - 114
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2004

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