Pu'ukohola Heiau National Historic Site Visited 17 January 2007

These rock piles may  not look like much, but you are seeing the Hawaiian Acropolis built by a contemporary of (and the Hawaiian  equivalent to) George Washington.  Standing in the driest part of the state^[52]

Typical dry side: undergoes much less erosion, mostly grassland and scrub, shallower valleys, coastal plains, flat sand beaches:  http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/kona/history1.htm

Construction started in 1790 (the same year Americans started on the White House)

http://www.nps.gov/puhe/index.htm

kapu is Polynesian taboo conceptlthough the pan-Polynesian concepts of mana (spiritual or supernatural power) and kapu (taboo) were probably still a part of their social and ritual lives.http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/kona/history1b.htm (31)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kawaihae

George Washington?  K is called the "Napoleon of the Pacific."                  

Engineering feats (and power of chiefs) in the building of fishponds -- moving much rock http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/kona/history1b.htm (29)

http://www.cr.nps.gov/history/online_books/kona/history1b.htmLiterally stone age: very few metals found on the islands and huge deterrant to developing useful technologies.  But much volcanic rock

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