# Wallin 2025: From ritual spaces to monumental expressions: rethinking East Polynesian ritual practices

> Paul Wallin, Helene Martinsson-Wallin, 2025. 1 records on Mysteries Department cite it. Cited for the 2025 reassessment of isolation.

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# 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.

**Easter Island moai** Articledoi: **[10.15184/aqy.2025.96](https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2025.96)** Checked against the original0

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Cited for the 2025 reassessment of isolation.

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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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