Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom

Geoffrey Clark; David Burley; Tim Murray

doi:10.1017/S0003598X00097738

Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom

Geoffrey Clark^*, David Burley, Tim Murray

^*Corresponding author for this work

Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

45 Citations (Scopus)

Abstract

On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since the place remains sacred and in use.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	994-1008
Number of pages	15
Journal	Antiquity
Volume	82
Issue number	318
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003598X00097738
Publication status	Published - Dec 2008

Access to Document

10.1017/S0003598X00097738

Cite this

@article{2e90edae409c44bca58da53fa6c34883,

title = "Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom",

abstract = "On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since the place remains sacred and in use.",

keywords = "Chiefdom, Fifteenth century AD, Kingdom, Megalithic, Mortuary practice, Neolithic, Princely burial, Tonga",

author = "Geoffrey Clark and David Burley and Tim Murray",

year = "2008",

month = dec,

doi = "10.1017/S0003598X00097738",

language = "English",

volume = "82",

pages = "994--1008",

journal = "Antiquity",

issn = "0003-598X",

publisher = "Cambridge University Press",

number = "318",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom

AU - Clark, Geoffrey

AU - Burley, David

AU - Murray, Tim

PY - 2008/12

Y1 - 2008/12

N2 - On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since the place remains sacred and in use.

AB - On Tongatapu the central place of the rising kingdom of Tonga developed in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries AD. Marked out as a monumental area with a rock-cut water-carrying ditch, it soon developed as the site of a sequence of megalithic tombs, in parallel with the documented expansion of the maritime chiefdom. The results of investigations into these structures were achieved with minimum intervention and disturbance on the ground, since the place remains sacred and in use.

KW - Chiefdom

KW - Fifteenth century AD

KW - Kingdom

KW - Megalithic

KW - Mortuary practice

KW - Neolithic

KW - Princely burial

KW - Tonga

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=58149277299&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1017/S0003598X00097738

DO - 10.1017/S0003598X00097738

M3 - Article

SN - 0003-598X

VL - 82

SP - 994

EP - 1008

JO - Antiquity

JF - Antiquity

IS - 318

ER -

Monumentality and the development of the Tongan maritime chiefdom

Abstract

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this