Hawaiians used adzes for various purposes like cutting, chopping and carving. Traditionally known by the Hawaiian name Keanakakoi, which means “the adze-making cave,” the quarry was placed on ...

Short detours off Chain of Craters Road take you to an ancient Hawaiian adze quarry and a prehistoric lake. When it snows, local families might make the drive up here for the novelty of a snowball ...

A new exhibition on Oahu's North Shore showcases 1,000 years of Hawaiian history through artifacts discovered in the 1970s ...

To tell the town’s long and complex history, it displayed stone artifacts, such as a replica Hawaiian adze, an axelike tool for trimming and smoothing wood, from Maui’s first settlers ...

The discovery of an adze fashioned from Hawaiian basalt on a Tuamotu atoll in French Polynesia provides the first material evidence that ancient voyagers made an 8,000-kilometre round trip from ...

“Ka‘i i ke Kua,” a sculpture in the shape of a large Hawaiian adze, held up by a struggling human figure. The adze is carved out of a granite boulder, originally about 400 pounds, that had ...