Morphological variability and temporal patterning in marquesan domestic architecture: Anaho valley in regional context

Asian Perspectives

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 342-382

  Allen, Melinda S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Climate variability; Domestic architecture; East Polynesia; Little Ice Age; Marquesas Islands; Megalithic architecture; Post Contact depopulation; Radiocarbon chronology; Sociopolitical process

Indexed keywords

ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL TRADITION; GEOCHRONOLOGY; LITTLE ICE AGE; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOCARBON DATING; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MARQUESAS ISLANDS;

EID: 77952909776     PISSN: 00668435     EISSN: 15358283     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/asi.2009.0003     Document Type: Article

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