Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 11, 1 November 2008 — TV series reveals 'Pacific Clues' [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TV series reveals 'Pacific Clues'

University of Hawai'i doctoral student Kekuewa Kikiloi is helping to raise the next generation of archaeologists. Kikiloi is featmed in a new TV series, Tuesdays on PBS Hawai'i, that's helping middle school students to unloek the mysteries of archaeologieal sites around

the Pacific. Kik i 1 o i ' s 10-minute episode ( Pacific Clues, program two),

takes students to two remote

n o r t h w e s t - ern Hawaiian Islands, Nihoa and Mokumanamana, where he has employed coral-dating technology to help determine the age of heiau, and surveyed and mapped wellpreserved archaeological sites. "It's kind of like the lost city of Babylon there," Kikiloi said by phone as he was sailing to Nihoa for a recent field study. "On Nihoa you have everything like ceremonial sites, house platfonns, rock shelters, shrines, agricultural terraces - just a lot of artifacts still lying around. ... It's like you're going back in time." Travel back in time with Pacific Clues, airing through Dec. 1 at 12:50 p.m., following the 12:30 showing of Stories to Tell, a new series about how the Civil War reached into the Pacific. Both ninepart series are produced by the state Department of Education's Teleschool Branch, led by director/producer Ann Marie Kirk, an award-winning docmnentary fihnmaker. For information, email pacificclues @ gmail.com. Shows repeat Thursdays and Satmdays on Educational Channel 56. Previously aired episodes - including Kikiloi's - may also be viewed online at teleschool.kl2. hi.us by clicking on TV Programs and scrolling down to Stories to Tell and Pacific Clues. The shows will re-air in the spring on ehannel 56. — Lisa Asatū E3

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