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ANTIQUITY
Volume 82, Issue 318, Pages 994-1008Publisher
ANTIQUITY
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00097738
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Tonga; Neolithic; Megalithic; fifteenth century AD; chiefdom; kingdom; mortuary practice; princely burial
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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.
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