Quarried away: Thinking about landscapes of megalithic construction on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Sue Hamilton; Susana Nahoe Arellano; Colin Richards; H. Francisco Torres

doi:10.4324/9781315427737-28

Quarried away: Thinking about landscapes of megalithic construction on Rapa Nui (Easter Island)

Sue Hamilton
, Susana Nahoe Arellano
, Colin Richards
, H. Francisco Torres

Archaeology Institute

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Monuments have featured strongly within “interpretative” approaches to landscape archaeology (e.g., Richards 1996; Thomas 1992; Tilley 1994, 2004). Within these studies, the “monument” is assumed to be architecturally unproblematic and is experienced as a completed entity. In this chapter, we approach landscapes as contexts of construction, whereby the monument is constantly enmeshed within an ongoing process of alteration and transformation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Handbook of Landscape Archaeology
Publisher	Taylor and Francis
Pages	176-186
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781315427720
ISBN (Print)	9781598742947
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315427737-28
Publication status	Published - 3 Jun 2016

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