| Ref ID: | 27468 |
|---|---|
| Ref Type: | Journal Article |
| Authors: | Kahn, Jennifer G. Lundblad, Steven P. Mills, Peter R. Chan, Yvonne, Longenecker, Ken Sinoto, Yoshiko |
| Title: | Settlement chronologies and shifting resource exploitation in Kaū District, Hawaiian Islands |
| Date: | 2016 |
| Source: | Asian Perspectives (2016) |
| DOI: | 10.1353/asi.2016.0018 |
| Abstract: | We report on re-analysis of two Kaū District collections from Hawaii Island to demonstrate what can be learned when applying new research questions to old collections. Our research goals center on two main themes: re-dating the HA-B22-64 and -248 sites to place them within the newly refined Hawaiian archipelago settlement chronology and using diverse data sources to look at changing resource use in pre-Contact Hawaii through time. The case study tackles questions concerning island settlement and changing resource use in the Hawaiian Islands located in remote East Polynesia. Our application of targeted AMS dating of identified wood charcoal allows us to refine the settlement sequence for HawaiI Island, similar to efforts utilizing a suite of advanced techniques to refine chronological sequences more broadly in Asia and the Pacific Island region, such as East Timor ( Lape 2006), the Mariana Islands (Carson and Kurashina 2012), West Polynesia ( Burley et al. 2015 Rieth et al. 2008), the Hawaiian Islands (Carson 2006 Mulrooney et al. 2014 Rieth et al. 2011), and East Polynesia (Allen and Huebert 2014 Allen and Wallace 2007 Kahn 2006 Kahn et al. 2015 Wilmshurst et al. 2011). We also emphasize how diverse lines of analytical data provide a strong interpretive base from which to investigate long-term trends in terrestrial and marine resource exploitation and use, similar to other studies in the Asia-Pacific region focusing on the importance of land and marine resources to trends in regional settlement and trajectories of cultural evolution ( Bar-Yosef et al. 2012 Erlandson 2001 Hung et al. 2007 Jones 2007 OConner and Veth 2005 Ono et al. 2013 Szabo and Amesbury 2011 Torrence et al. 2009). |
| Date Created: | 2/15/2017 |
| Volume: | 55 |
| Number: | 2 |
| Page Start: | 184 |
| Page End: | 207 |