Reference Guide to the Archaeology of West Maui

Reference Guide to the Archaeology of West Maui provides Kānaka Maoli and researchers essential bibliographic information on archaeological research on West Maui, mainly from the last thirty years. Following the controversies that arose with the excavations at Honokahua in the late 1980s, there has been intense concern, and legal regulations, connected to the iwi (bones) and moepū (funerary objects) that are uncovered throughout the State of Hawai‘i. As those with Hawaiian ancestry assert t...