'Le Temps d'Avant': La Prehistoire de la Nouvelle-Caledonie, Contribution a l'Etude des Modalites d'Adaptation et d'Evolution des Societes Oceaniennes dans un Archipel du Sud de la Melaneisie. (book reviews)

Christophe Sand. Paris: L'Harmattan, 1995. 356 pp., 214 figures, 2 tables, bibliography, softcover.

In the history of Oceanic archaeological research, New Caledonia and the Loyalty Islands have proved a most intractable archipelago, confounding efforts by several generations of scholars to clarify and elucidate their prehistory. Bellwood, in his classic synthesis, had to admit that "the New Caledonian sequence is very poorly understood at present" (1979:262). Likewise, Green and Mitchell (1983) confessed their difficulty in presenting a "coherent summary" of the ...

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