Back to the future in the caves of Kaua'i [electronic resource] : a scientist's adventures in the dark / David A. Burney.
Publication details: New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, c2010.Description: xv, 198 p. : ill., mapsISBN:- 9780300150940 (alk. paper)
- 0300150946 (alk. paper)
- 9780300163117 (e-book)
- Burney, David A., 1950- -- Travel -- Hawaii -- Kauai
- Excavations (Archaeology) -- Hawaii -- Kauai
- Caves -- Hawaii -- Kauai
- Paleoecology -- Hawaii -- Kauai
- Prehistoric peoples -- Hawaii -- Kauai
- Human ecology -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- History
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on -- Hawaii -- Kauai -- History
- Time -- Philosophy
- Kauai (Hawaii) -- Antiquities
- Kauai (Hawaii) -- Environmental conditions
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- DU628.K3 B87 2010eb
eBooks
Includes bibliographical references (p. 181-188) and index.
Time's most important moment -- Proverbial tracks -- Constructing a "poor man's time machine" -- Owl omens -- Opening ancient doors -- Characters and a stage, but no script -- Fishponds -- A snails' tale -- Mauka marshes -- So what happened, anyway? -- Greetings from old Kaua�i -- Irrigating the future -- The tour -- Right here, right now -- Finding a future in the past.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.