Late Prehistoric Fishing Adaptations at Kawakiu Nui, West Moloka'i

dc.contributor.authorWeilser, Marshall I
dc.contributor.authorWalter, Richard
dc.date.accessioned2024-02-08T20:00:53Z
dc.date.available2024-02-08T20:00:53Z
dc.date.issued2002-06-01
dc.description.abstractFishhooks are one of the more common items of material culture found in Polynesian archaeological sites, and sizeable hook assemblages were accumulating in museum and private collections from as early as the 18th century from early explorers such as Bligh and Cook who amassed large ethnological collections from New Zealand and tropical Oceania (Kaeppler 1978). On the basis of the collections available by the early decades of the 20th century, ethnologists became aware that variation in hook form showed strong spatial patterning. Skinner (1924), for example, defined a number of prehistoric culture areas in New Zealand on the basis of hook form and discussed these in terms of alternative migration models. Buck (1927) also saw the potential for using fishhook distributions as a means of tracing, Polynesian migration routes and interpreted Polynesian colonization history on the basis of one-piece hook distributions. Additionally, the distribution of onepiece hooks, Ruvettus hooks, and bonito hooks (trolling, lures), were used by Burrows (1938) to differentiate western, central, and marginal Polynesian culture areas.
dc.format.extent20 pages
dc.identifier.issn0890-1678
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10524/74537
dc.subjectfiskhooks
dc.subjectecology
dc.subjectPolynesian fishing
dc.subjectsite ecology
dc.subjectbenthic fishery
dc.subjectarchaeological landscape
dc.subjectKawakiu Nui Bay
dc.subjectradiocarbon
dc.subjectlure points
dc.subjecttaphonomy
dc.subjectfragment classes
dc.subjectoctopus
dc.subjectfish bone identification
dc.titleLate Prehistoric Fishing Adaptations at Kawakiu Nui, West Moloka'i
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prism.endingpage61
prism.number1
prism.publicationnameHawaiian Archaeology
prism.startingpage42
prism.volume8

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