Roots of Conflict: Soils, Agriculture, and Sociopolitical Complexity in Ancient Hawai'i

by Patrick Vinton Kirch (Editor), Carolyn Kehaunani Cachola-Abad (Contributor), Oliver A. Chadwick (Contributor)

Roots of Conflict presents the efforts of a team of social and natural scientists to understand the complex, systemic linkages between land, climate, crops, human populations, and their cultural structures. The research group has focused on what might seem to some an unlikely locale to investigate a set of problems with worldwide the Hawaiian Islands. Though it is perhaps the most isolated archipelago on Earth, Hawai'i is a "model system" for teasing out key connections between land, agriculture, and society.

240 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2011

About the author

Patrick Vinton Kirch, Director of the Oceanic Archaeology Laboratory, holds the Class of 1954 Professorship in Anthropology at the University of California at Berkeley.

Reviews

[Kathe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Solid description of integrative systems studies of social agro ecosystems. The studies are not without flaw but this is an solid presentation.