TY - JOUR
KW - Ecology
KW - Fidji
KW - Fiji
KW - Lakeba
KW - Nanaga
KW - archaeological remains
KW - ceremonial site
KW - site c \& eacute
KW - r \& eacute
KW - moniel
KW - vestiges arch \& eacute
KW - ologiques
AU - Christophe Sand
AU - Jacques Bole
AU - Andre-John Ouetcho
AU - Sepeti Mararaba
AU - Ratu Balenaivalu
AU - David Baret
AB - Pre-Christian religious sites of the Fijian Archipelago have been seldom studied and even less often mapped by archaeologists. This is especially the case for the enigmatic Nanaga enclosures, whose functioning has remained poorly documented by the first ethnographers of the 19th century. This paper describes one of these sites, located near Labasa town in the northwestern plain of the large island of Vanua Levu. After presenting one of the oral traditions associated with some of the uprights of this Nanaga, exemplifying long-distance chiefly networks, we describe the different elements of the double alignment of low platforms and related structures. These data are discussed in the wider context of anthropological and archaeological information published about the Nanaga sites and the rituals associated with them.
DO - 10.1002/arco.5348
M1 - 1
N1 - Num Pages: 8 Place: Hoboken Publisher: Wiley Web of Science ID: WOS:001454086800001
N2 - Pre-Christian religious sites of the Fijian Archipelago have been seldom studied and even less often mapped by archaeologists. This is especially the case for the enigmatic Nanaga enclosures, whose functioning has remained poorly documented by the first ethnographers of the 19th century. This paper describes one of these sites, located near Labasa town in the northwestern plain of the large island of Vanua Levu. After presenting one of the oral traditions associated with some of the uprights of this Nanaga, exemplifying long-distance chiefly networks, we describe the different elements of the double alignment of low platforms and related structures. These data are discussed in the wider context of anthropological and archaeological information published about the Nanaga sites and the rituals associated with them.
SP - 63
EP - 70
TI - Nanaga Site of Wasavulu (Labasa, Fiji): Mapping of a Traditional Religious Site of Vanua Levu
UR - https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/arco.5348
VL - 60
SN - 0728-4896, 1834-4453
ER -