Thomas S. Dye

I am an archaeologist based in Honolulu.

From 2001 to 2018, I owned and operated an archaeological consultancy, T. S. Dye & Colleagues, Archaeologists, where I had the pleasure and privilege of working with very many fine colleagues. With me to the end were my partner, Eric Komori, and two amazing wahine, Muffet Jourdane and Kim Kalama.

I taught Hawaiian Archaeology at the University of Hawai`i at Mānoa for five years starting in 2014 and am currently teaching an undergraduate course, How Archaeology Works.

I’m also working with Anne Philippe at Université de Nantes, Laboratoire de mathématiques Jean Leray on an R software package, ArchaeoPhases, which reads the raw MCMC output of Bayesian calibration software such as BCal, OxCal, and ChronoModel and provides a set of functions to analyze it.

I’ve developed and released an open source Harris Matrix drawing program, hm. I’m using the hm software to investigate the structure and history of the leeward Kohala field system on Hawai`i Island.