TY - JOUR AU - Mills, Peter R. AU - Lundblad, Steven P. AU - Hon, Ken AU - Moniz Nakamura, Jadelyn J. AU - Kahahane, Elizabeth L. AU - Drake-Raue, Adrian AU - Souza, Tanya M. AU - Wei, Richard PY - 2011/07/06 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Reappraising craft specialization and exchange in pre-contact Hawai`i through non-destructive sourcing of basalt adze debitage. JF - Journal of Pacific Archaeology JA - JPacArch VL - 2 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://pacificarchaeology.org/index.php/journal/article/view/34 SP - 79-92 AB - Depictions of pre-Contact Hawaiian complex societies are framed in self-sufficient small land units (<em>Ahupua&lsquo;a</em>) that minimised the occurrence of long-distance commodity exchange and chiefly redistributive networks. We test the <em>Ahupua&lsquo;a </em>model by using non-destructive Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) to source 955 basalt flakes and cores recovered from Kahalu&lsquo;u Habitation Cave in the Kona district (~AD 1600&ndash;1800). Findings suggest that less than 7% of the basalt debitage was obtained from local sources. ER -