Survey and test excavations of the Puu Kalepeamoa site, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Author:
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McCoy, Patrick Carlton
- Title:
- Survey and test excavations of the Puu Kalepeamoa site, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
- Year:
- 1991
- Pages:
- v, 197 leaves
- Subject:
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Hawaii antiquities
Archaeological surveying Mauna Kea
Excavations (archaeology) Mauna Kea
Mauna Kea antiquities
Puu Kalepeamoa Site
Mauna Kea Adzes Quarry
- Summary:
- Archaeological investigations were undertaken in September 1987 to mitigate the adverse effects of a power line construction project on a portion of the Puu Kalepeamoa site. Data recovery involved survey and surface collections at 11 localities and limited test excavations at two of these. An analysis of the artifact collection, comprised of mostly adze manufacturing by-products derived from the Mauna Kea Adze Quarry and octopus sinker manufacturing by-products, provided new information on these two production systems. Also included in this large artifact assemblage are some 20 bird cooking stones called pohaku eho which may have a primarily ritual use. The site, which on the basis of three radiocarbon age-determinations appears to date to after AD 1600-1700, is interpreted as a camp site occupied on both the ascent to and descent from the adze quarry.
- Date:
- 1991
- Collection:
- Monographs