A Technological, Petrographic, and Geochemical Analysis of the Kapohaku Adze Quarry, Lana'i, Hawai'ian Islands

Marshall I. Weisler

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Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis

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The well known Polynesian ethnographer and archaeologist, Kenneth Pike Emory, surveyed the island of Lana'i, Hawai'ian Islands, in 1921 and conducted one of the first extensive seuJement pattern studies in Polynesia. More than 65 years after he visited the largest adze quarry on the island al Kapohaku, this important adze production cenire was relocated, and a surface collection of flakes, adze blanks and preforms was made. The assemblage is described and a reduction sequence is proposed for the production of adzes from flakes. Technological comparisons with other adze quarries in Polynesia suggest Polynesian-wide similarities in the production of flake adzes. Peirographic descriptions and geochemical characterisation of quarry rock are presented.

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