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Survey and test excavations of the Puu Kalepeamoa site, Mauna Kea, Hawaii

Author:
McCoy, Patrick Carlton
Title:
Survey and test excavations of the Puu Kalepeamoa site, Mauna Kea, Hawaii
Year:
1991
Pages:
v, 197 leaves
Subject:
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