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Current Perspectives on Hawai‘i’s Stone Tool Economies

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ID20494038
AuthorsPeter Mills (0000-0002-7852-5654), Peter R Mills (0000-0002-6504-9791, University of Otago), Steven Lundblad, Steven P Lundblad (0009-0006-5866-969X)
Year2014
Volume5
Issue2
Pages30-39
Publication date2014-06-22
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Pacific Archaeology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1179-4704 • E-ISSN: 1179-4712
PublisherNew Zealand Archaeological Association (PUBLISHER • NZ)
DOI10.70460/jpa.v5i2.144
OpenAlexW1506704050
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited17

Patrick Kirch’s publication of Feathered Gods and Fishhooks in 1985 emphasized the value of sourcing stone tools to delineate precontact interaction spheres and the evolution of social complexity in Hawai‘i. Throughout the 1990s, however, published sourcing studies included just over 200 specimens, limiting our ability to generate well-substantiated conclusions related to stone tool production over nearly a millennium of Hawaiian prehistory. Recent geochemically based analyses of archaeological basalt and volcanic glass in Hawai‘i include over 21,000 samples of basalt and volcanic glass. We present a review of this expansive data set. Findings point to regionally divergent patterns in production and distribution, and other basalt sources that could rival the well-known Mauna Kea Adze Quarry in their extent of interisland distribution

Economics · Geography · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Island Studies and Pacific Affairs · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Oceanography

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