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leucocephala), scattered Lantana (Lantana camara)bushes, other introduced shrubs and various desiccated grasses. This groundcover has been kept under control by the cattle that presently graze the area, and the understory is relatively open,limiting the need for clearance during the survey and greatly assisted the recording of sites. The present inventory survey identified a total of 62 archaeological sites located throughout the survey property. Each site was assigned a temporary field number (e.g. T-001) for easy identification. Once all of the information collected during the survey has been compiled and reviewed, a list of sites and their descriptions will be submitted to the Hawaii State Historic Preservation Division(SHPD) which will assign them more permanent State Inventory of Historic Places (SIHP) site numbers. During the course of fieldwork,the location of each site was mapped using a hand held global positioning system(GPS). The resulting map of site distribution is shown in Figure 3. Each site was then documented and photographed. Several of the more significant sites were mapped in detail. The weathered pahoehoe lave flow that forms the southern portion of the project area was found to be extensively modified by the construction of modified outcrops, stone mounds,rough stone edged and soil filled terraces, and other minor features. Most of the modified outcrops and mounds may have served as clearance piles. Loose stones,collected off the ground surface, appear to have been piled atop exposed areas of lava outcrop to clear the surrounding soil. These open soil areas would then have been used for the planting of crops. The various mounds and modified outcrops found within this southern area may also have been used as planting features. Vine crops such as `uala (sweet potato,Ipomoea batatas) and Uhl (yam, Dioscorea spp.) may have been grown within them. Occasionally,rough alignments of stones have been placed along the down slope edge of soil pockets creating small soil terraces. These alignments probably served as retaining walls to better catch and hold the soil. Another characteristic of this area is the presence of concentrations of battering marks which are present on some patches of exposed bedrock. These areas of concentrated battering likely represent locations at which some processing activity,possibly related to agriculture,took place. What that activity may have been is uncertain. Modified outcrops,mounds, soil terraces and other apparently agricultural features are spread throughout the full extent of the pahoehoe lave flow within the boundaries of the project area, though they are less abundant toward the south where the soil is thinner. Given the density of these features and the lack of any recognizable divisions within this dryland field system,the entire complex was assigned a single field number (T-040). During the 2001 archaeological inventory survey for the adjacent Mamalahoa Bypass Road (Robbins et al. 2001), similar agricultural features resting within the ahupua`a of Kuamo`o were assigned State Inventory of Historic Places site number 21244. Features resting within the ahupua`a of Ma`ihi 2 were assigned site number 21243. Only a small portion of the agricultural features present within the current 59.40 acre study area extend into Ma`ihi 2. For this reason, and so as not to arbitrarily divide what is obviously a single continuous archaeological landscape,the entire modified pahoehoe lave flow will be assigned SIHP site number 21244. The open soil area that forms the northern portion of the survey area,though not so extensively modified as the southern portion,was most probably also used for crop cultivation. The soil here is relatively free of bedrock outcropping and the extensive clearance of surface stone so evident at Site 21244 would not have been necessary. Page 3