Archaeology at the University of Hawai'i

Archaeology at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa provides training for both undergraduates (B.A.) and graduate students (M.A., Ph.D.). The archaeology program participates in two graduate certificates in: Historic Preservation and Underwater Archaeology and Maritime History. Given the location of Hawai'i, the archaeology program emphasizes research and instruction for Hawai'i, the Pacific, and Asia (especially Southeast Asia) as well as other parts of the United States, e.g., the American Southwest. There are on-going field research projects directed by faculty members in Cambodia, the Molucca Islands, Fiji, the Marquesas, and Hawai'i Island, and archaeologists in the Department have worked recently throughout most of the remaining Hawaiian Islands (Maui, Lana'i, Kaho'olawe, O'ahu, Kaua'i, and Necker), the Society Islands, Samoa, Melanesia, the Mariana Islands, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Thailand. Students are generally provided with both field and laboratory research experiences. Theoretical approaches represented among the archaeologists in both research and teaching include evolutionary and ecological theory, as well as interests in processual and analytical perspectives. There is strong commitment in the archaeology program at UH Manoa to linking method and theory to field and laboratory analyses in order to contribute to the development of prehistory and history throughout Asia and the Pacific. The archaeology program has a laboratory equipped for paleo-environmental and geoarchaeological research and there is access at UH Manoa to laboratories for geochemical, isotopic, and geographic information systems research. We have ties with and access to resources at the Bishop Museum, the Central Identification Laboratory-Hawai'i, and the State Historic Preservation Office. A number of archaeologists from these institutions along with researchers working for private contract companies, the military, and state and federal organizations work with the program, serve on student committees, and occasionally teach at the University.

Faculty

James M. Bayman, PhD
Archaeology, craft production, political economy; North America, US Southwest <jbayman@hawaii.edu>

Michael W. Graves, PhD
Archaeology, ethnoarchaeology, evolution of social complexity, quantitative analysis; U.S. Southwest, Oceania <mgraves@hawaii.edu>

Terry L. Hunt, PhD
Archaeology, paleoenvironmental reconstruction, evolutionary theory, archaeometry/ceramics; Oceania <thunt@hawaii.edu>

Barry V. Rolett, PhD
Archaeology; Pacific Islands, Southeast China <rolett@hawaii.edu>

Miriam T. Stark, PhD
Archaeology, ecology, early village economics, ceramics, ethnoarchaeology; Southeast Asia, US Southwest <miriams@hawaii.edu>

Archaeology Lab Manager

Jo Lynn Gunness

Additional Graduate Faculty

J. Stephen Athens (PhD, Int'l Arch. Res. Inst.)
-evolutionary and agricultural ecology, epistemology of science, archaeology of South America, Micronesia and Hawai'i <athens@hawaii.edu>

Susan A. Lebo (PhD, P. B. Bishop Museum)
- historical archaeology, 19th century Euro-American and Asian ceramic analysis; Hawai'i, US mainland <slebo@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org>

Yosihiko Sinoto (DSc, B.P. Bishop Museum)
-archaeology, ethnology; Polynesia and Japan <sinoto@bishop.bishop.hawaii.org>

David J. Welch (PhD, Int'l Arch. Res. Inst.)
-archaeology; Hawai'i, Micronesia, Thailand <welch@hawaii.edu>

William Chapman (PhD, American Studies)
-historic preservation, historical archaeology, history of anthropology <wchapman@hawaii.edu>

Emeritus

P. Bion Griffin, PhD
Archaeology and ethnology of hunter-gatherers, ethnoarchaeology, technology; Southeast Asia, Philippines <griffin@hawaii.edu>

Wilhelm G. Solheim II, PhD
-archaeology, prehistory of Southeast Asia and its relationships with that of Korea and Japan

Southeast Asian Archaeology

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Archaeology at the University of Hawai'i

Faculty

Archaeology Lab Manager

Additional Graduate Faculty

Emeritus

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