Mauna Kea (Geographic Keyword)
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Sites T-031618-01 and T-032118-01 are located in the high plateau region between Mauna Kea and Mauna Loa, near a north/south trending portion of Old Saddle Road and about half of a kilometer south-southwest of the Mauna Kea Recreation Area in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai'i County, Hawai'i. The Research Corporation of the University of Hawai'i (RCUH) and the Pacific Cooperative Studies Unit of the Pacific International Center of High Technology Research (PICHTR) submitted 17 sediment...
PROTEIN ANALYSIS ON GROUNDSTONES FROM SITE 50-10-31-10222, CHARLIE CIRCLE AREA, HAWAI’I (2018)
Site 50-10-30-10222, located within the U.S. Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), is situated in the saddle region between Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Hual̀ālai. Water-worn stones recovered at this site are interpreted to represent stones that were heated, then placed in bird abdominal cavities to cook the flesh from the inside. Two elongated water-worn basalt pebbles were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine if there is protein evidence of this practice.