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LAPITA CALEDONIAN. Archaeology Of An Early Insular Settlement

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SAND (Christophe)
CALEDONIAN LAPITA. Archeology of a first Oceanian island settlement

SDO. Paris 2010, paperback, quarto (30 x 21.2 cm), 295 pages and numerous illustrations 

  »Here is the first general synthesis on the settlement of New Caledonia following the Austronesian maritime expansion, a little over 3000 years ago across the South-West Pacific. Its most specific archaeological marker is a type of composite pottery decorated with dotted geometric patterns, called « Lapita » in reference to a site in this archipelago in southern Melanesia.  »

SAND (Christophe) CALEDONIAN LAPITA. Archeology of a first Oceanian island settlement SDO. Paris 2010, paperback, quarto (30 x 21.2 cm), 295 pages and numerous illustrations    »Here is the first general synthesis on the settlement of New Caledonia following the Austronesian maritime expansion, a little over 3000 years ago across the South-West Pacific. Its most specific archaeological marker is a type of composite pottery decorated with dotted geometric patterns, called « Lapita » in reference to a site in this archipelago in southern Melanesia.  »