Henri JM Claessen proposed that the early state came into being by a process of social
stratification that led to the creation of genealogical distance between a ruler and the ruled …

Dedicated ritual specialists often had indispensable roles in ancient religions and significant
impacts on political histories. Few studies have developed methodologies for recovering …

Recent expansion of alternative frameworks for archaeological interpretation, particularly
non-Western ones, provides an opportunity to revisit and challenge orthodox narratives in …

AbstrAct Late pre-European contact Hawaiian society was agriculturally based with visible
religious structures acting to legitimise and reinforce elite control and management of …

This dissertation examines a period in the late expansion phase (AD 1400-1650) of pre-
contact Hawaiian society when formidable changes in ritual and social organization were …

Significant scholarly attention has been paid to monument construction, craft production, and
leadership strategies in the Mississippian world (AD 1000 to AD 1540) of the Southeastern …

Much of the research into East Polynesian ceremonial sites focuses on temple-altar (marae-
ahu) complexes as sacred sites where varied religious rituals and rites of passage were …

Archaeologists rely on the spatial and temporal distribution of artifacts and other site‐based
materials to understand the stratigraphic integrity of the matrix in which remains are …

This dissertation examines a period in the late expansion phase (AD 1400-1650) of pre-
contact Hawaiian society when formidable changes in ritual and social organization were …

In the early 1900s, Australian-born archaeologist John FG Stokes was the first to extensively
use modern surveying techniques and photography to document Hawaiian archaeological …