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IN MEMORIAM Yosihiko H. SINOTO (3 SEPTEMBER 1924 – 4OCTOBER 2017) Kenneth P. Emory (left) and Yosihiko H. Sinoto (right) at the Pu‘u Ali‘i sand dune site, South Point, Hawai‘i Island, in 1954, examining a remaining block of the thick midden layer that Emory had been excavating in arbitrary 6-inch levels. (Photograph courtesy of Y. H. Sinoto) YOSIHIKO H. SINOTO (1924–2017) AND HIS CONTRIBUTIONS TO POLYNESIAN ARCHAEOLOGY Yosihiko H. Sinoto, known to his friends and colleagues as Yosi, passed away on 4 October 2017, at the age of 93, having spent a remarkable 62 years of his life in pursuit of the Polynesian past. His long career spanned virtually the entire history of modern Asian Perspectives, Vol. 57, No. 2 © 2018 by the University of Hawai‘i Press. 326 ASIAN PERSPECTIVES � 2018 � 57(2) archaeology in the Pacific, beginning with the inception of stratigraphic excavation after World War II. Although he also carried out brief field projects in Micronesia and Western Polynesia, most of his research was focused on Eastern Polynesia, especially in Hawai‘i, the Society Islands, and the Marquesas. In these key archipelagoes, Sinoto discovered and excavated some of the most iconic of Polynesian sites, including Pu‘u
Asian Perspectives – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Sep 22, 2018
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