From ritual spaces to monumental expressions: rethinking East Polynesian ritual practices

Paul Wallin, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, 2025. Antiquity.

Argues from dated ritual sites that monumental ahu developed on Rapa Nui and spread westward, so the island was not isolated from the rest of East Polynesia after settlement.

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Wallin, P., & Martinsson-Wallin, H. (2025). From ritual spaces to monumental expressions: rethinking East Polynesian ritual practices. Antiquity. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.96

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Wallin, Paul and Helene Martinsson-Wallin. “From ritual spaces to monumental expressions: rethinking East Polynesian ritual practices.” Antiquity (2025). https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.96.