#pacifichistory — Public Fediverse posts

New research applies uranium-thorium dating to 19th-century coral cottages in French Polynesia, revealing construction timelines for Polynesian homes that colonial records largely ignored. #Archaeology #PacificHistory #Geochronology @antiquity.ac.uk https://www.anthropology.net/p/coral-walls-uranium-clocks-and-the

7,000 years ago, a wave threw a 1,200-tonne boulder inland. Scientists just found it — and it’s rewriting tsunami history. #TsunamiRisk #Geoscience #PacificHistory

https://geekoo.news/the-boulder-that-moved-uncovering-a-7000-year-old-tsunamis-fury/

In the category "the past isn't gone. it's not even past", here is a building that still says "hakalau plantation company", because Hawai'i was once covered by sugar plantations.

That past is literally still in the landscape... it's even clearly-labeled! (A lot of the rest of that history is less apparent in the landscape if you don't know which lands used to be sugar lands. but this one is just right there, sitting on the side of the road. I don't know if anyone uses it for anything.)

#hawaii #colonialism #extraction #agriculture #history #pacific #BuiltLandscape #PacificHistory

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory

https://archive.org/details/aa-in-h

African Americans in Hawaiʻi: A Search for Identity by Ayin M. Adams; Aaron L. Day; Indira Hale Tucker; Kathryn Waddell Takara

Topics
#Hawaii, #historyofHawaii, #Africandiaspora, #Pacifichistory, #historyofthepacific, #Africanamerikan, #Africanamerikans, #biographies, #biographicalhistory, #biographicalhistories, #colonialism, #imperialism, #usimperialism, #uscolonialism, #usempire, #antiblackness, #colorism, #Blackhistory