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Article: Kibo le Serment Grave, Essai de synthese sur les petroglyphes caledoniens.(Book Review)
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- Archaeology in Oceania
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- October 1, 2005
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Kibo le Serment Grave, Essai de synthese sur les petroglyphes caledoniens
By Jean Monnin and Christophe Sand Les Cahiers de l'Archeologie en Nouvelle-Caledonie 16, Noumea. ISSN 1264-1502 / ISBN 2-9519208-2-2. Pp 319. Price PFr1500 + postage.
While I have visited several of the petroglyph sites illustrated in this book and had a vague idea that such sites were prolific in New Caledonia, I had no idea how prolific or how diverse sites were until I turned the pages of this new and very comprehensive synthesis by Jean Monnin and Christophe Sand.
This volume builds on and extends earlier work, particularly that of Frimigacci and Monnin (1980), that ...