Michael Kolb
Biographic Data
| ID | 3994428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Kolb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Kolb |
| SIGNATURE | KOLB M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northern Illinois University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5417-6816 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 226 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Tracing the use-life of an early Denver neighborhood cistern: A multi-proxy analysis of soil development, domestic practices, and urban privacy
The Water Supply Infrastructure of Early Denver
The City of Denver originated as a gold-mining town. Its geographic location and semi-arid environment posed unique challenges to the development of its water supply infrastructure. Multi-scalar historical and archeological analyses, reveal how the city coped with the challenges of water scarcity and distribution over time, illustrating the evolution of water management practices, and the ways in which infrastructure and governance systems evolve…
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island
The relationship between agricultural systems and the development of complex societies in ancient Hawai`i has been debated for decades. To contribute to this debate, we examine a terrace complex representing an extended family agricultural land plot in the Kula dryland field system of East Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Botanical, faunal, soil, and architectural analysis data reveal a variety of household labor practices related to agroforestry ca. a.d.…
A pixelated landscape survey in the forest: Merging space, time, and context at Monte Bonifato, Sicily
Trempealeau’s Little Bluff
Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associat…
Trempealeau’s Little Bluff: An Early Cahokian Terraformed Landmark in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associat…
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…
Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: A preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares
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…
Labor mobilization, ethnohistory, and the archaeology of community in Hawai'i
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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Ritual Activity and Chiefly Economy at an Upland Religious Site on Maui, Hawai'i
This report describes Molohai heiau, a Hawaiian upland religious site, within the context of human ritual activity and chiefly productive economy. Molohai represents a series of occupational episodes that date between A.C. 1057 and 1920. The site contains an unusual sequence of faunal material, where domestic pig replaced wild birds and fish as a chiefly commodity, sacrificial offering, or feasting food. The ritual connotation of these offerings …
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…
Labor mobilization, ethnohistory, and the archaeology of community in Hawai'i
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…
Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: A preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares
Ritual Activity and Chiefly Economy at an Upland Religious Site on Maui, Hawai'i
This report describes Molohai heiau, a Hawaiian upland religious site, within the context of human ritual activity and chiefly productive economy. Molohai represents a series of occupational episodes that date between A.C. 1057 and 1920. The site contains an unusual sequence of faunal material, where domestic pig replaced wild birds and fish as a chiefly commodity, sacrificial offering, or feasting food. The ritual connotation of these offerings …
Trempealeau’s Little Bluff: An Early Cahokian Terraformed Landmark in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associat…
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…
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island
The relationship between agricultural systems and the development of complex societies in ancient Hawai`i has been debated for decades. To contribute to this debate, we examine a terrace complex representing an extended family agricultural land plot in the Kula dryland field system of East Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Botanical, faunal, soil, and architectural analysis data reveal a variety of household labor practices related to agroforestry ca. a.d.…
Tracing the use-life of an early Denver neighborhood cistern: A multi-proxy analysis of soil development, domestic practices, and urban privacy
The Water Supply Infrastructure of Early Denver
The City of Denver originated as a gold-mining town. Its geographic location and semi-arid environment posed unique challenges to the development of its water supply infrastructure. Multi-scalar historical and archeological analyses, reveal how the city coped with the challenges of water scarcity and distribution over time, illustrating the evolution of water management practices, and the ways in which infrastructure and governance systems evolve…
Ritual Activity and Chiefly Economy at an Upland Religious Site on Maui, Hawai'i
This report describes Molohai heiau, a Hawaiian upland religious site, within the context of human ritual activity and chiefly productive economy. Molohai represents a series of occupational episodes that date between A.C. 1057 and 1920. The site contains an unusual sequence of faunal material, where domestic pig replaced wild birds and fish as a chiefly commodity, sacrificial offering, or feasting food. The ritual connotation of these offerings …
Monumentality and the Rise of Religious Authority in Precontact Hawai'i [and Comments and Reply]
[Comments and Replies]
Labor mobilization, ethnohistory, and the archaeology of community in Hawai'i
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…
Elymian regional interaction in Iron Age western Sicily: A preliminary neutron activation study of incised/impressed tablewares
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…
Trempealeau’s Little Bluff
Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associat…
Trempealeau’s Little Bluff: An Early Cahokian Terraformed Landmark in the Upper Mississippi Valley
Archaeological and geomorphological investigations of Little Bluff (47Tr32), in Trempealeau, Wisconsin, reveal how and, possibly, why this loess-capped sandstone ridge spur was anthropogenically altered in the mid-eleventh century A.D. Project excavation units and trenches dug in 2010–2011 revealed the timing, rate of completion, structure, symmetry, and orientation of the construction. In addition to delineating construction details and associat…
A pixelated landscape survey in the forest: Merging space, time, and context at Monte Bonifato, Sicily
Household Labor Practices and Dryland Agroforestry in Upland Kula, Maui Island
The relationship between agricultural systems and the development of complex societies in ancient Hawai`i has been debated for decades. To contribute to this debate, we examine a terrace complex representing an extended family agricultural land plot in the Kula dryland field system of East Maui, Hawaiian Islands. Botanical, faunal, soil, and architectural analysis data reveal a variety of household labor practices related to agroforestry ca. a.d.…
Tracing the use-life of an early Denver neighborhood cistern: A multi-proxy analysis of soil development, domestic practices, and urban privacy
The Water Supply Infrastructure of Early Denver
The City of Denver originated as a gold-mining town. Its geographic location and semi-arid environment posed unique challenges to the development of its water supply infrastructure. Multi-scalar historical and archeological analyses, reveal how the city coped with the challenges of water scarcity and distribution over time, illustrating the evolution of water management practices, and the ways in which infrastructure and governance systems evolve…
Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (10 works) · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies (9 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Asian American and Pacific Histories (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Excavation (5 works) · History (5 works)