Over an approximately 1,000-year settlement history, the distribution of Native Hawaiian cultural sites across the landscape has been driven, in large part, by environmental factors. Through an exploration of the precontact ritual, residential, and agricultural sites of Kaupō, Maui, the ways soil nutrients and arable land resulted in discrete zones of production and power can be seen. With the arrival of American and British missionaries in the mid-1800s, however, these environmental influences carried forward in the differential selection of Hawaiian temple sites to be destroyed and rebuilt as Christian churches. As a result, Kaupō’s two churches (which remain functional today) can be best understood as a result of long-term ecological processes often overlooked in historical archaeology today.

在大约 1,000 年的定居历史中，夏威夷原住民文化遗址在整个景观中的分布在很大程度上是由环境因素驱动的。通过对毛伊岛考波的接触前仪式、住宅和农业遗址的探索，可以看到土壤养分和耕地导致生产和权力的离散区域的方式。然而，随着 1800 年代中期美国和英国传教士的到来，这些环境影响在夏威夷寺庙遗址的不同选择中得以延续，以作为基督教教堂被摧毁和重建。因此，可以最好地理解考波的两座教堂（今天仍然有效），因为长期的生态过程在今天的历史考古学中经常被忽视。