Hawaiian territoriality evolved in response to the ecodynamics of changing populations set
within shifting socio-political structures. Modeling agricultural surplus production and life
expectancy of various prehistoric and protohistoric territorial configurations in the leeward
Kohala dryland field system identifies the costs and benefits associated with dynamic
territorial units. The results of the modeling indicate that if people lived autonomous lives
within their territories the 18-km long landscape containing the field system would have …