Kibo le Serment Grave, Essai de synthese sur les petroglyphes caledoniens.(Book Review)

From: Archaeology in Oceania | Date: October 1, 2005| Author: O'Connor, Sue | Copyright information

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 pa...

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