ABSTRACT

Starts from the archaeological work conducted in the Northern Mariana islands and on Guam, which has provided a basis for reconstructing the sociopolitical organization of late prehistoric and early historic Latte-period Chamorro groups that lived on these islands. Wishes to contribute to the study of architecture, which plays an important role in the archaeological interpretations. Investigates architectural aspects of ethnographically documented societies, mainly of the Bontoc in Luzon, the Philippines, for comparison, in order to develop a model for the socio-economic system of the prehistoric Marianas, [mk]

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1302 Chippindale, Christopher Editorial / Christopher Chippindale. Antiquity 70/270 (1996): 729-739.