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relative time period: Begin with the initial colonization of the Hawaiian islands and precedes European contact in a.d. 1778.

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Kolb, M. (2001). Hawaiian. In: Peregrine, P.N., Ember, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Prehistory. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1189-2_12

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