Monday, November 07, 2005

H-3 sites yield clues of early Islanders

The first public summary of Hawai'i's biggest and most expensive archaeological project indicates that there wasn't one Hawaiian way of doing things, and that customs and beliefs may have differed not only from island to island but even within each island.

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Research specialist Helen Leidemann at the Bishop Museum is the first to explain what the scientists learned from the costly excavations, which were conducted as part of the construction of the H-3 Freeway.