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The role of Rapa Nui (Easter Island) statuary as territorial boundary markers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2015

Britton L. Shepardson
Britton L. Shepardson*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, 346 Saunders Hall, 2424 Maile Way, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA (Email: bleif@hawaii.edu)
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Abstract

A new survey and spatial analysis enables the author to argue that inland examples of Easter Island’s famous stone statues were not in transport to the coast but mark out ancient territories proposed by ethnologist Katherine Routledge in 1919.

Keywords

Easter Islandstatuestracksspatial analysisterritories
Type
Research Article
Information
Antiquity , Volume 79 , Issue 303 , March 2005 , pp. 169 - 178
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2005

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