For Spring Break, Denzil and I had the opportunity to go to Hawaii with his family. The six of us (his parents, sister, and his sister's husband) went to the Big Island first, then we stayed in Oahu for a few days. I really did not know that much about Hawaiian archaeology before I left, aside from vague dates of when the islands were inhabited and the general mode of subsistence for ancient settlements. The archaeological sites we visited were both located on the Big Island. The Pu'u Loa Petroglyphs The Pu'u Loa petroglyphs are found at the bottom of Kilauea. They were carved into the pahoehoe and lava flows, and their age is not known. Polynesians did not reach the island until sometime around AD 300, and some carvings depict cows and other animals that
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