SHA Conference, 2009

The dates for the conference are:

October 23-25, 2009

Honolulu, O'ahu Island, Hawai'i

Details on the 75th anniversary celebration for the University of Hawai'i at Manoa's Department of Anthropology can be found here.

Check back here soon for more information about the conference.

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Hawai'i's Dynamic Built Environment or 'What is a site?'

Wednesday, March 14, 2001

7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

Paki Conference Room

Bishop Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii

Dr. Thomas S. Dye (IARII) will speak on

"Hawai'i's dynamic built environment, or 'What is a site?'"

Evidence will be presented to support the thesis that many traditional Hawaiian stone features were used for short periods of tiime. Practical techniques for investigating feature use duration will be demonstrated. Implications of the dynamic built environment for cultural resources management investigations, settlement pattern studies, and reconstructions of pre-Contact population will be explored.

The UH-Manoa Archaeology Field School: Photographs and Memories Since 1950

Wednesday, November 14, 2001

Social Sciences Building, (UH-Manoa)

2424 Maile Way, Room 345

7:30 PM

James Bayman & Jo Lynn Gunness from the UH-Manoa Department of Anthropology willl reprise (with additions) the department's 2001 SHA Conference paper:

"The UH-Manoa Archaeology Field School: Photographs and Memories Since 1950."

This is an audience participation event. We would like to encourage the audience to ask questions, make comments, share memories & maybe even identify a few now-unknown souls in the many photographs that will be shown.

University of Hawai'i 2001 Field Season in the Marquesas Islands

Wednesday, March 13, 2002

7:30 P.M.

University of Hawai'i (Manoa)

Saunders Hall 345--(Saunders Hall was formerly known as Porteus Hall, and the Social Sciences Bldg.)

Robert Bollt, PhD. Candidate in anthropology at UH Manoa, will give a talk entitled "The University of Hawai'i 2001 Archaeological Field Season in the Marquesas Islands"

In Pursuit of Amelia Earhardt

Tuesday, April 9, 2002

7:30 P.M.

University of Hawai'i (Manoa)

Saunders Hall 345--(Saunders Hall was formerly known as Porteus Hall, and the Social Sciences Bldg.)

Dr. Thomas F. King will give a talk entitled "In Pursuit of Amelia Earhardt: Recent Historical Archaeology on Nukumaroro Atoll, Republic of Kiribati"

Between the Pali and the Sea

Wednesday, August 21, 2002

7:00 P.M.

University of Hawai'i (Manoa)

Saunders Hall 345--(Saunders Hall was formerly known as Porteus Hall, and the Social Sciences Bldg.)

"BETWEEN THE PALI AND THE SEA: A report on recent surveys in the Kalaupapa, National Historical Park, Moloka`i".

Mark McCoy, Anthropology Graduate Student at the University of California at Berkeley, will be speaking on his recent field work at Kalaupapa, Moloka`i.

Valley of the Golden Mummies

Lecture by:

Prof. Robert Littman and Prof. De Wolfe Miller (University of Hawai'i, Manoa)

Date: Thursday, Sept. 11, 2003

Time: 7:30 p.m.

Place: Honolulu Academy of Arts, Doris Duke Theatre

In 1996 a major mummy field was discovered in the Bahariya Oasis in the Western Desert in Egypt. This site contains perhaps 10,000 mummies from the Greco-Roman period. It promises to be one of the most exciting new sites of the 21st century. Dr. Miller and Dr. Littman are studying the health and disease in this mummy population. This is part of a larger study of the Egyptian Mummy Project, which includes the mummies of the great pharaohs of Egypt. They will report on the site and their December 2002 expedition in Bahariya, and the Egyptian Mummy Project.

Dr. Miller is Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Hawaii. He has worked extensively in Egypt for the past 25 years on schistosomiasis and hepatitis C. Dr. Littman is a Professor of Classics at the University of Hawaii. He has written extensively on ancient medicine, and has excavated in Greece, Israel, and Egypt.

The lecture will be followed by a free champagne reception.

This lecture is co-sponsored by the following organizations:

Archaeological Institute of America, Hawaii Society

Honolulu Academy of Arts

University of Hawai'i

Society for Hawaiian Archaeology

2003 Newsletters

The Society for Hawaiian Archaeology's NEWSLETTER was published monthly during the academic year, September through June for several years. Members and supporting institutions received a copy of the Newsletter as a benefit of their membership. However, the Newsletter has been inactive for the last few years as a result of a shortage of contributions of items for publication.