Hawaiian Adze Production and Distribution

Implications for the Development of Chiefdoms

by Barbara Lass

Book cover: Hawaiian Adze Production and Distribution

Extent: 96 pages

Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press

Subjects: Anthropology, World Archaeology

Series: Monographs

Series volume number: 37

Language: English

Paperback (Out of print)

(December 1994)

ISBN: 9780917956812

8.46 x 10.94 inches

Price: $20.00

Out of stock

PDF (Published)

(December 1994)

ISBN: 9781938770784

Price: $16.00

Using a study of stone adzes of the precontact period on the island of Hawai’i, Lass examines the role of a material resource in the development of cultural complexity. Archaeological evidence is used to analyze the hypotheses that embrace the adaptationist and political approaches to increased complexity.

  • By (author) Barbara Lass