County: Hawaii
Site_Name: ?
Island: Hawaii
Traditional_District: Puna
District: Puna
Ahupuaa: Kamaili
Site_Function: I-Burial Open terr/platfrm
Complex: Yes
Tax_Map_Key: 1-3-01:
State_Site_Number: 50-10-46-2538
BM_site_number: 50-Ha-A16-008
Project_Number: 055
Entered_By: RG
Entry_Date:
Updated_By: CG
Updated_Date: 2009-09-17 00:00:00.000
National_State_Park_Site_Number:
Misc_Site_Number:
Map_ID_Number: 29 maps; I-12 Konia 2
Photo_ID_Number: Ha(a)145-146
Slide_ID_Number:
Surveyor: Bevacqua/Dye
Survey_Type:
Survey_Date: 00FEB1972
Excavation:
Form_of_Ownership:
Owner:
Owner_Address:
Field_Notes: 4 fieldnotes; VI-55; IV-HI.13
Bag_Notes:
Dating:
History: TL 1972.78
Status:
SiteType: Cemetery. Approximately 25 burials, located 170m mauka of highway 137. Rectangular platforms are constructed entirely of a'a lava, and some of the larger ones may have more than one burial. Cemetery may have originated before European contact and has a history of occasional use, up to and including the 20th century. It does not appear to been used recently.
Bibliography: R. Bevacqua/T.Dye, 1972, DRS 72-3: 21
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