Adze find confirms Hawaiian voyages

Posted on October 12, 2007

Was the titel of an article written in the Honolulu Advertiser dated October 7th 2007. I quote “Australian researchers have found the first physical evidence validating centuries of oral history that the first Hawaiians were skilled navigators who sailed back to Polynesia- and brought rocks from Hawai’i that were turned into critical wood-cutting tools.” We are talking about 1300 AD.” This brings me right away back to my discussion about whether the ancient Hawaiian were capable to cut logs into planks to cover the deck of their canoe. Some of those canoes were up to about 80 feet long. We know they used the following tools: the pump drill, the adze, clamps, hammerstone, rubbing stones, caulking tools, chisels, even paintbrush. The adze been a wood cutting tool, one has to imagine that the ancient Polynesians were quite capable to cut planks out of logs, given time, and time they had plenty, as well as laborers. We know that whole villages were involved in the making of a voyaging canoe.