My brother lives on Maui and he's invited me to vacation but I intend to join in the research, (seen above!)
Posted on 05/16/2011 8:52:39 AM PDT by decimon
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A pattern of earthen berms, spread across a northern peninsula of the big island of Hawaii, is providing archeologists with clues to exactly how residents farmed in paradise long before Europeans arrived at the islands.
The findings suggest that simple, practical decisions made by individual households were eventually adopted by the ruling class as a means to improve agricultural productivity.
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The researchers believe the data also provides insight into the structure of Hawaiian society at the time. “We know that there was a single chief for each district and a series of lesser chiefs below that,” she said.
Similar to the feudal system of Europe, a portion of the crop surplus was always designated for the chiefs.
“This suggests to us that the field system was originally put in place probably by individual households that produced crops for their own consumption.
“It was then appropriated by the chiefs and turned into more of a surplus production system, where they demanded that the land be put into production and more people would produce more surplus food,” she said.
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(Excerpt) Read more at researchnews.osu.edu ...
Serfs up ping.
The sad history of the world:
individual households that produced crops for their own consumption.
“It was then appropriated by the chiefs
Sounds like classic wealth redistribution to me!
My brother lives on Maui and he's invited me to vacation but I intend to join in the research, (seen above!)
I’d hit it.
Sounds like an excuse for Ohio professors to get a trip to Hawaii.
Obviously the Hawaiians could not advance beyond a primitive level without a USDA and intrepid bureaucrats like Shirley Sherrod.
Ua mau ke ea o ka aina I ka pono.
Yeah, but would she “hit” you?
The Hawaiians ate rather well judging by the numerous terms in their language, which I know, relating to ‘delicious,’ ‘full belly,’ ‘tasty’ and the like - their staple - poi - is the large root of the taro plant baked and mashed into a paste - and interestingly, the taro plant grows stalks on which there are large leaves - and when one harvests a taro plant these stalks are cut and placed in muddy ground where they then turn into another taro plant - the next generation of the taro plant the stalk was taken from - taro plants in Hawaii today actually derive - through the re-planting of the growable stalks - right back to the very first taro plants first brought to Hawaii by the original settlers - the taro also sprouts what are called ‘oha which then can turn into taro plants from the plant they grew from - and the Hawaiian word for family is ‘ohana - the etymology - being from ‘oha - suggests that the family is like a taro plant that makes limitless generations across time - ‘oha is also the acronym for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs -
The Hawaiians ate rather well judging by the numerous terms in their language, which I know, relating to ‘delicious,’ ‘full belly,’ ‘tasty’ and the like - their staple - poi - is the large root of the taro plant baked and mashed into a paste - and interestingly, the taro plant grows stalks on which there are large leaves - and when one harvests a taro plant these stalks are cut and placed in muddy ground where they then turn into another taro plant - the next generation of the taro plant the stalk was taken from - taro plants in Hawaii today actually derive - through the re-planting of the growable stalks - right back to the very first taro plants first brought to Hawaii by the original settlers - the taro also sprouts what are called ‘oha which then can turn into taro plants from the plant they grew from - and the Hawaiian word for family is ‘ohana - the etymology - being from ‘oha - suggests that the family is like a taro plant that makes limitless generations across time - ‘oha is also the acronym for the Office of Hawaiian Affairs -
Did they find Barry’s Choom Gang’s home garden?
Wonder what archeologist 600 years from now will be saying about the Hawaiian culture from back in the early 21st century? Tiny cocktail umbrellas unearthed will prove that Hawaiians use to be about 12 inches tall. They worshipped at something they called ABC Stores where they left offerings of plastic ukuleles, tiki statues, shot glasses, and what is believed to be a holy ointment called SPF-50.
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