Late Quaternary Chronology and Stratigraphy of Twelve Sites On Kaua‘i

Twelve new sites on Kaua‘i provide an island-wide view of late Quaternary (near time) environments on the oldest of the major Hawaiian Islands. Radiocarbon-dated lithologies are compared for estuarine sites on windward and leeward coasts, interior peat bogs ranging from 169 to 1220 m in elevation, prehistoric fishponds, and a sinkhole paleolake in the Maha‘ulepu cave system. Terrestrial sedimentation begins in many coastal sites about 6000 cal BP, as sea level approached modern levels. Prehuman sedimentation rates were quite low in all these sites, generally

Archaeology · Cave · Chronology · Geography · Holocene · Megafauna · Peat · Pleistocene · Polynesians · Population · Prehistory · Quaternary · Radiocarbon dating · Sea level · Taphonomy · Geology and Paleoclimatology Research · Isotope Analysis in Ecology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology · Oceanography · Paleontology

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