In 2014, IAS journeyed to the Big Island of Hawaii. With our site choices custom selected for our class participants, everyone was guaranteed a great time! We visited rock art sites, fish trap areas, restored and unrestored aquaculture sites, ancient villages, and even learned frond weaving from a Native Hawaiian woman. We even managed to get in some fabulous meals and great snorkeling. A few pictures, below, tell the story.
Archaeology of the Big Island
A different type of expression in stone
The King’s Road, near Kaloko
Exploring more petroglyph areas
Ancient fishtraps–part of a dynamic aquaculture system
The King’s Road, near Kaloko
Restored fishpond near the sea
Practicing Hawaiian weaving
Stone foundation–prehistoric use area or Hudson’s Bay storage house foundatiion?
Exploring petroglyph fields–this one with a worn path running through it
The sea, with sites to either side of this view point