Michael J Kolb
Biographic Data
| ID | 214205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael J Kolb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael J |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolb |
| SIGNATURE | KOLB M J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Metropolitan State University of Denver |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 180 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Honouring displacement, embracing resilience: The displaced Aurarian project in downtown Denver
The tri-institutional Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver occupies land shaped by overlapping histories of displacement – from the forced removal of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute in the nineteenth century to the 1970s urban renewal that displaced a predominantly Hispanic neighbourhood. The Displaced Aurarians Project, a collaboration between descendant communities, archaeologists, and students, seeks to redress these erasures through community-bas…
Dryland Swale Farming and Long-term Land Use in Upland Kula, Maui, Hawaiʻi
Subsurface excavations, paleoenvironmental sampling, and Bayesian modeling clarify upland field development in Kula, Maui. We report 26 radiocarbon determinations from 13 agricultural and two ritual feature complexes associated with swale terraces, enclosure walls, and water channels. We model five architectural phases: Preconstruction, Primary Construction, Secondary Modification, Enclosure Works, and Post-European Reuse. Preconstruction land us…
Settlement Structure and Organisation
This chapter compares the structure and organisation of settlements across Europe, bridging the chapters on regional settlement patterns and households. The settlement represents the local organisation of habitations: how households were placed with respect to each other and to common spaces for work, ceremonies, and social interaction. Important variables included the density and number of contemporaneous households, the permanence of house site…
The Origins of Monumental Architecture in Ancient Hawai'i
At the time of European contact in AD 1778, chiefs in the Hawaiian archipelago had implemented a temple network that helped reaffirm an ideology of kingship, feudalize land ownership, impose ritual control over labor and production, and facilitate internecine warfare over territory. A corpus of 90 14C dates from 40 temples on the island of Maui indicates that this temple system originated AD 1200 and developed over four phases that correlate with…
Landscapes of War: Rules and Conventions of Conflict in Ancient Hawai'i (And Elsewhere)
A comparison of the rich ethnohistoric record of prehistoric conflict in Hawai'i with evidence of warfare in other culture areas suggests some basic similarities in cause and effect shared by many complex hegemonic polities. Three types of archaeological remains in Hawai'i indicate that human sacrifice and monumental-scale ritual construction were integral parts of pre-Contact (A.D. 1778) conquest warfare. The Hawaiians, however, invested much le…
The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age landscape of interior western Sicily
The archaeology of complex societies in western Sicily has traditionally focused upon Greek and Phoenician colonization rather than the development of the indigenous peoples of the interior. The Salemi regional survey project in western Sicily was conceived as a means to track long-term landscape change of this interior 'indigenous' landscape. From 1998 to 2000, this survey has conducted an extensive survey of 150 sq. km of the Salemi region, an …
Monumental grandeur and political florescence in pre‐contact Hawai'i: Excavations at Pi'ilanihale Heiau, Maui
Pi'ilanihale, the largest religious temple in the Hawaiian archipelago, is a premier example of monumental architecture. Conflicting evidence, however, exists as to when it was constructed and how it was used. Archaeological excavations undertaken at the site indicate that the structure was built early in the course of Maui political development before the island was unified into a single political unit, and did not serve as one of the polity‐lev…
Staple Finance, Ritual Pig Sacrifice, and Ideological Power in Ancient Hawai'i
This article explores the role of ritual pig sacrifice in Hawai'i from an archaeological perspective, tracing political change through time. Hawai'i represents an interesting case study of how insular tropical environments dictate unique solutions to problems of social control. Results indicate that staple foods, in the absence of other wealth items, can become imbued with distinctive political values for materializing power relationships and sha…
It's a Small World after All: Comparative Analyses of Community Organization in Archaeology
Human social systems are constituted at different scales; the local community, while an important organizational unit cross-culturally, has received limited archaeological study. We argue that community-centric studies in archaeology have significant potential in documenting the diversity of small-scale agricultural systems and in promoting comparative study of local societies. Using comparative data from social anthropology, we put forth a defin…
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Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
It's a Small World after All: Comparative Analyses of Community Organization in Archaeology
Human social systems are constituted at different scales; the local community, while an important organizational unit cross-culturally, has received limited archaeological study. We argue that community-centric studies in archaeology have significant potential in documenting the diversity of small-scale agricultural systems and in promoting comparative study of local societies. Using comparative data from social anthropology, we put forth a defin…
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
Landscapes of War: Rules and Conventions of Conflict in Ancient Hawai'i (And Elsewhere)
A comparison of the rich ethnohistoric record of prehistoric conflict in Hawai'i with evidence of warfare in other culture areas suggests some basic similarities in cause and effect shared by many complex hegemonic polities. Three types of archaeological remains in Hawai'i indicate that human sacrifice and monumental-scale ritual construction were integral parts of pre-Contact (A.D. 1778) conquest warfare. The Hawaiians, however, invested much le…
The Origins of Monumental Architecture in Ancient Hawai'i
At the time of European contact in AD 1778, chiefs in the Hawaiian archipelago had implemented a temple network that helped reaffirm an ideology of kingship, feudalize land ownership, impose ritual control over labor and production, and facilitate internecine warfare over territory. A corpus of 90 14C dates from 40 temples on the island of Maui indicates that this temple system originated AD 1200 and developed over four phases that correlate with…
Monumental grandeur and political florescence in pre‐contact Hawai'i: Excavations at Pi'ilanihale Heiau, Maui
Pi'ilanihale, the largest religious temple in the Hawaiian archipelago, is a premier example of monumental architecture. Conflicting evidence, however, exists as to when it was constructed and how it was used. Archaeological excavations undertaken at the site indicate that the structure was built early in the course of Maui political development before the island was unified into a single political unit, and did not serve as one of the polity‐lev…
Staple Finance, Ritual Pig Sacrifice, and Ideological Power in Ancient Hawai'i
This article explores the role of ritual pig sacrifice in Hawai'i from an archaeological perspective, tracing political change through time. Hawai'i represents an interesting case study of how insular tropical environments dictate unique solutions to problems of social control. Results indicate that staple foods, in the absence of other wealth items, can become imbued with distinctive political values for materializing power relationships and sha…
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
[Comments and Replies]
It's a Small World after All: Comparative Analyses of Community Organization in Archaeology
Human social systems are constituted at different scales; the local community, while an important organizational unit cross-culturally, has received limited archaeological study. We argue that community-centric studies in archaeology have significant potential in documenting the diversity of small-scale agricultural systems and in promoting comparative study of local societies. Using comparative data from social anthropology, we put forth a defin…
Monumental grandeur and political florescence in pre‐contact Hawai'i: Excavations at Pi'ilanihale Heiau, Maui
Pi'ilanihale, the largest religious temple in the Hawaiian archipelago, is a premier example of monumental architecture. Conflicting evidence, however, exists as to when it was constructed and how it was used. Archaeological excavations undertaken at the site indicate that the structure was built early in the course of Maui political development before the island was unified into a single political unit, and did not serve as one of the polity‐lev…
Staple Finance, Ritual Pig Sacrifice, and Ideological Power in Ancient Hawai'i
This article explores the role of ritual pig sacrifice in Hawai'i from an archaeological perspective, tracing political change through time. Hawai'i represents an interesting case study of how insular tropical environments dictate unique solutions to problems of social control. Results indicate that staple foods, in the absence of other wealth items, can become imbued with distinctive political values for materializing power relationships and sha…
The Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age landscape of interior western Sicily
The archaeology of complex societies in western Sicily has traditionally focused upon Greek and Phoenician colonization rather than the development of the indigenous peoples of the interior. The Salemi regional survey project in western Sicily was conceived as a means to track long-term landscape change of this interior 'indigenous' landscape. From 1998 to 2000, this survey has conducted an extensive survey of 150 sq. km of the Salemi region, an …
Landscapes of War: Rules and Conventions of Conflict in Ancient Hawai'i (And Elsewhere)
A comparison of the rich ethnohistoric record of prehistoric conflict in Hawai'i with evidence of warfare in other culture areas suggests some basic similarities in cause and effect shared by many complex hegemonic polities. Three types of archaeological remains in Hawai'i indicate that human sacrifice and monumental-scale ritual construction were integral parts of pre-Contact (A.D. 1778) conquest warfare. The Hawaiians, however, invested much le…
The Origins of Monumental Architecture in Ancient Hawai'i
At the time of European contact in AD 1778, chiefs in the Hawaiian archipelago had implemented a temple network that helped reaffirm an ideology of kingship, feudalize land ownership, impose ritual control over labor and production, and facilitate internecine warfare over territory. A corpus of 90 14C dates from 40 temples on the island of Maui indicates that this temple system originated AD 1200 and developed over four phases that correlate with…
Settlement Structure and Organisation
This chapter compares the structure and organisation of settlements across Europe, bridging the chapters on regional settlement patterns and households. The settlement represents the local organisation of habitations: how households were placed with respect to each other and to common spaces for work, ceremonies, and social interaction. Important variables included the density and number of contemporaneous households, the permanence of house site…
Honouring displacement, embracing resilience: The displaced Aurarian project in downtown Denver
The tri-institutional Auraria Campus in Downtown Denver occupies land shaped by overlapping histories of displacement – from the forced removal of the Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute in the nineteenth century to the 1970s urban renewal that displaced a predominantly Hispanic neighbourhood. The Displaced Aurarians Project, a collaboration between descendant communities, archaeologists, and students, seeks to redress these erasures through community-bas…
Dryland Swale Farming and Long-term Land Use in Upland Kula, Maui, Hawaiʻi
Subsurface excavations, paleoenvironmental sampling, and Bayesian modeling clarify upland field development in Kula, Maui. We report 26 radiocarbon determinations from 13 agricultural and two ritual feature complexes associated with swale terraces, enclosure walls, and water channels. We model five architectural phases: Preconstruction, Primary Construction, Secondary Modification, Enclosure Works, and Post-European Reuse. Preconstruction land us…
Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (7 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (6 works) · History (6 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · Ancient history (3 works) · Archipelago (3 works)