Pana O'Ahu: Sacred Stones, Sacred Land

by Jan Becket

Few regions of the United States can equal the high concentration of endangered ancient cultural sites found in Hawaii. Built by the indigenous people of the Islands, the sites range in age from two thousand to two hundred years old and in size and extent from large temple complexes serving the highest order of chiefs to modest family shrines. Today, many of these structures are threatened by their proximity to urban development. Sites are frequently...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824818288
• ISBN13: 9780824818289
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 2.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 11.4" x 9.4"