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Article: KIBO--Le serment grave: Essai de synthese sur les petroglyphes caledoniens.(Book review)
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- Asian Perspectives: the Journal of Archaeology for Asia and the Pacific
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- March 22, 2006
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KIBO--Le serment grave: Essai de synthese sur les petroglyphes caledoniens. Jean Monnin and Christophe Sand, eds. Les Cahiers de l'Archeologie en Nouvelle-Caledonie 16, 2004.
It is common sense that "digging a hole" (1) on a surface like the face of a boulder guarantees the permanence of a message written in stone--a perennial memory. In a certain way, this is what the authors of this remarkable book have accomplished. Their recording campaigns and sophisticated synthesizing have resulted in the production of a work that is here to stay, firmly anchored in the pantheon of seminal works in rock art research. This book, I predict, will become a reference book for ...