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Site report for the Vai Matá - Maitakitemoa Area, Rapa Nui
This site report is the result of survey, test excavations and documentation of the archaeological features on the northwest coast of Rapa Nui during the 2001 summer field season of the Pacific Prehistory Project at the University of Hawai'i, Manoa. The site inventory comprises 62 sites in 7 classes. Although this report represents the results of 10 meter survey transects over the entire area mapped on the following pages, we believe subsequent seasons of resurvey will undoubtedly yield additions to this catalogue. Similarly, the site boundary we present for this report cannot be considered exhaustive, as we believe that archaeological features persist, at somewhat lower densities, both easterly, up the rolling slope of Terevaka volcano, and on either side of the topographic rise that bounds the valley on the North and South. A siteless survey strategy may demonstrate the functional redundancy along the recurring coastal valleys which we believe is characteristic of the northeastern coast. Additional years of survey and mapping are already planned, and will help us test the hypothesis of functional redundancy in feature classes across discrete geographical units.
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