Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom

Antiquity

Volumn 82, Issue 318, 2008, Pages 994-1008

  Clark, Geoffrey ^a   Burley, David ^b   Murray, Tim ^c  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chiefdom; Fifteenth century AD; Kingdom; Megalithic; Mortuary practice; Neolithic; Princely burial; Tonga

Indexed keywords

EID: 58149277299     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00097738     Document Type: Article

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