Ref ID:	31739
Ref Type:	Journal Article
Authors:	Beardsley, Felicia Rounds
Title:	Stylistic and spatial affinities of Easter Island ahu
Date:	1996
Source:	Bulletin of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association
Notes:	Proceedings of the 15th Congress of the Indo-Pacific Prehistory Association Chiang Mai, Thailand 5 to 12 January 1994
Abstract:	The results of a distributional study of Easter Island platform ahu are presented. A combined spatial and stylistic analysis is applied to this wholly prehistoric type of architectural feature in an effort to describe mathematically the social and political organisation of the prehistoric island community. A platform ahu served as the focal point for a mata, a lineage based on conical clan, and by extension functioned as an emblem and territorial marker of a lineage. Platform ahu within a 6.5 sq km area on the west and south coasts of the island were included in this study. Five mata once occupied this area according to ethnohistoric sources. The archaeological extension of this textual information is examined.
Date Created:	10/19/2003
Volume:	15
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