ABSTRACT
In this chapter we describe and comment on a number of sites that have cultural importance for the people of Erromango in southern Vanuatu, an island nation in the southwest Pacific. These sites are all marked by stones, either natural or emplaced, and are significant for a wide variety of reasons.1 An examination of the different roles that these stones play in the social and economic relationships between Erromangans and between Erromangans and their landscape is instructional for studies of archaeological landscapes in Melanesia and critical for effective cultural heritage management practice. Our review is by no means exhaustive and excludes equally important sites that have no stone features of any kind. Furthermore, our review uses categories of sites (stones and land, stones and agriculture, for example) only as a convenience and not as a reflection of any Erromangan typology of places.
