Christophe Sand
Biographic Data
| ID | 327264 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christophe Sand |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christophe |
| FAMILY NAME | Sand |
| SIGNATURE | SAND C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of New Caledonia |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3191-0536 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 60 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Nanaga Site of Wasavulu (Labasa, Fiji)
Pre‐Christian religious sites of the Fijian Archipelago have been seldom studied and even less often mapped by archaeologists. This is especially the case for the enigmatic Nanaga enclosures, whose functioning has remained poorly documented by the first ethnographers of the 19th century. This paper describes one of these sites, located near Labasa town in the northwestern plain of the large island of Vanua Levu. After presenting one of the oral t…
Ancient mitogenomes of Lapita pigs confirm continuity of the Pacific Clade in Remote Oceania
Refuting the existence of Indonesian Homo erectus neurocranial affinities in Maré (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia)
Au cours d'une expédition sur Maré (Îles Loyauté, Nouvelle-Calédonie), le père Marie-Joseph Dubois conduit des recherches anthropologiques l'amenant à théo- riser sur la présence de traits neurocrâniens d'Homo erectus indonésiens et d'influences biologiques polynésiennes. Pour tester ses hypothèses, un total de cinq crânes archéologiques de Maré ont été analysés par morphométrie linéaire pour : 1) estimer la présence d'affinité avec les H. erectu…
Condamnés au bagne de Caledoun
Jack Golson (1926-2023)
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Talepakemalai
Reviewed by: Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania ed. by Patrick Vinton Kirch Christophe Sand Talepakemalai: Lapita and Its Transformations in the Mussau Islands of Near Oceania. Patrick Vinton Kirch, ed. Monumenta Archaeological 47. Los Angeles: UCLA Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, 2021. xxvi + 558 pp., 337 figures, 90 tables, bibliography, index. Hardback US $120, ISBN 9781950446179. What a …
A dentate‐stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua
The chance recovery of a large pottery sherd from a flat‐bottomed dish with dentate‐stamped decoration in Galley Reach, about 50 km northwest of Port Moresby, raises interesting questions concerning interactions between Lapita arrivals and the established Melanesian communities of mainland Papua New Guinea. While the geographical proximity of the find to the Caution Bay Lapita sites would suggest some connection, an analysis of the sherd indicate…
New archaeological data from the abandoned island of Alofi (Hoorn archipelago, Western Polynesia)
The Hoorn Archipelago in Western Polynesia, comprising the islands of Futuna and Alofi, was in May 1616 the place of the very first long encounter between European navigators and Polynesians in the Central Pacific. The potential consequences of the two week stop of the Dutch sailors J. Lemaire and W. Schouten in Leava Bay have been a neglected topic of study until today. No proper consideration has been given to the possible introduction of forei…
A New Melanesian Rock‐Art Style
The paper presents the initial study of a unique rock‐art site discovered at the northern tip of the Mainland (Grande Terre) of New Caledonia. On the walls of a cliff‐face at the foot of a karst outcrop near Roche Mauprat, people have carved successive layers of geometric and figurative motifs. The fine, detailed engraving style of some human figures is unlike anything identified to date in the rock‐art of New Caledonia, where petroglyph anthropo…
Petrographic and chemical analyses of sherds from the Kurin Lapita site (Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia), ca. 3000–2700 BP
Bilan des recherches archéologiques sur l’île d’Alofi (Futuna, Polynésie occidentale)
La petite île d’Alofi, en face de Futuna en Polynésie occidentale, a été décrite dès les premiers écrits missionnaires de la fin des années 1830 comme étant désertée. Au milieu des années 1980, dans le cadre d’un programme ethnoarchéologique sur Wallis-et-Futuna, a été réalisé un premier inventaire de vestiges anciens d’Alofi et des fouilles menées sur certains sites. La plus ancienne phase d’occupation, caractérisée par la production de céramiqu…
Long-distance Lapita pottery transfers and ancient social relationships
A question of impact
Historical narratives on Oceania have over the last two centuries mainly focused on the second half of the eighteenth century as the significant period of first encounters between Pacific Islanders and Western explorers. However, the first crossing of the region by Fernando de Magallanes (Ferdinand Magellan) was in 1521. More importantly, it has been widely neglected that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish, Dutch, and Portugu…
Analyse archéologique des anciens terroirs kanak de Deva (Bourail, Nouvelle-Calédonie) par LiDAR
L’application d’une nouvelle technique de levé du relief topographique appelée lidar (détection et estimation de la distance par laser), qui permet de pénétrer sous le couvert végétal, offre de grands potentiels d’identification de sites archéologiques pour les îles du Pacifique. Cet article présente une étude pilote utilisant la méthode lidar sur l’archipel calédonien, en analysant les données d’un levé réalisé sur le domaine de Deva (centre-oue…
Seashore Settlement Patterns in the Koné and Naïa Periods
As part of a geological survey in southwest mainland New Caledonia, potsherds were recorded in the profiles at four coastal sites. Subsequent archaeological investigations at two of these sites have allowed us to diversify the ceramic data and show them to be local variants of Podtanean, Puen, and Plum ceramic types. These are characteristic of production in the southern part of the archipelago during the first millennium BC and first millennium …
Être descendants d’exilés algériens à Caledoun
La colonisation française de l’archipel calédonien s’est faite au xixe siècle principalement avec une main d’œuvre pénale. Le bagne a servi de lieu d’exil à des condamnés de France mais également d’Afrique du Nord, avec une prépondérance massive d’Algériens. Les bagnards algériens ont eu à reconstruire leur vie en terre Kanak en devenant colons « malgré eux ». Leur parcours singulier a été soumis à un processus original « d’invention des traditio…
Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands
Two recent papers, by Lipson et al. and Posth et al., have challenged current interpretations of the initial settlement of Remote Oceania. We invited Stuart Bedford, who is an author on both papers, to outline their importance, and a number of scholars in various disciplines to comment on their findings
Sāmoan settlement pattern and star mounds of Manono Island
The small island of Manono, positioned between Upolu and Savaii in the Samoan Archipelago, is known in oral traditions of West Polynesia as having had an important political role during the immediate pre-Christian period. An archaeological programme carried out between 2012 and 2015 has mainly concentrated on the mapping of parts of the northern half of the island, around Salua Village. This has allowed us to study in detail a portion of the slop…
The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies
Were there major population collapses on Pacific Islands following first contact with the West? If so, what were the actual population numbers for islands such as Hawai‘i, Tahiti, or New Caledonia? Is it possible to develop new methods for tracking the long-term histories of island populations? These and related questions are at the heart of this new book, which draws together cutting-edge research by archaeologists, ethnographers, and demographe…
Le « cycle de jade » kanak. Réévaluation archéologique d’un réseau d’échanges traditionnels (Mélanésie du Sud)
À l’arrivée des navigateurs européens, à la fin du xviiie siècle, les chefferies kanak des différentes îles de la Nouvelle-Calédonie étaient en relations formalisées à courte et moyenne distance grâce au fonctionnement de différents réseaux d’échanges, dont le plus célèbre décrit ethnographiquement est connu sous le nom de « cycle du jade ». Standardisé par l’ethnologie du xxe siècle en un axe unique d’échange, principalement à partir d’une sourc…
Des musées archéologiques en Océanie
Introduction La notion d’archéologie et la perception d’un « temps long » vont de soi dans la majorité des sociétés dites modernes, au sens de sociétés à base urbaine intégrées dans des systèmes d’États-Nations forts et en grande partie détachés d’un lien culturel à la terre. En entrant dans un musée archéologique – qu’il soit préhistorique ou classique – les visiteurs se posent rarement la question de la portée sociologique, identitaire et polit…
Prestige Stone Items in Island Melanesia
Museum collections from Melanesia preserve a number of enigmatic stone objects whose antiquity and use have been debated by ethnographers for a long time. Rarely have these items been studied from an archaeological perspective, although comparisons with other remains and geological provenance studies can help disentangle questions about these objects. This paper presents the case of finely polished biconical picks and associated drilled stone pla…
Geological subsidence and sinking islands
W.R. Dickinson, as part of his wide study of the geological history of the Pacific islands, has linked the unique case of the deeply submerged Lapita site of Mulifanua in western Upolu (Samoa) to the slow subsidence of Upolu island. Recent archaeological research on the neighbouring small island of Manono has yielded new and detailed data on this geological process. A series of new dates has allowed us to define the speed of the subsidence and de…
Connection and competition
Results of petrographic analysis for ten New Caledonian Lapita pottery assemblages are presented in this paper. These findings enable us to identify several major pottery production areas during the Lapita period. It could be argued that the rise of pottery production traditions at the northern bank of the Diahot Valley near Ouégoa/Pouébo in the north, and the region between Tontouta and Nouméa/Saint Louis in the south, was influential in the for…
Kutau/Bao Obsidian – Extending its Eastern Distribution into the Fijian Northeast
This paper reports on the discovery and geochemical sourcing of an obsidian flake from a Lapita site on Vorovoro Island off the northeast coast of Vanua Levu, Fiji. The flake is sourced using pXRF to the Kutau/Bao source located on the Willaumez Peninsula, West New Britain in the Bismarck Archipelago
Dietary patterns during the late prehistoric/historic period in Cikobia island (Fiji)
Recent developments in the study of New Caledonia's prehistory
Since the 1960's and 1970's, a number of archaeological overviews associating chronological evolution and cultural transformation in Oceanian archipelagos have been published (Yen and Gordon 1973; Kirch and Yen 1982; Best 1984; Davidson 1984; Kirch 1985, 1988b). These works are often based on determinist and evolutionist concepts (Kirch 1984) which, over and above typological elements such as the evolution of pottery and hook forms, take into con…
The specificities of the ‘Southern Lapita Province
New studies on the Lapita phenomenon in New Caledonia have led to the identification of local patterns that allow the outlining of the concept of a ‘Southern Lapita Province‘, recently proposed by Kirch (1997). By defining the chronological limits and the typological characteristics of the dentate, non‐dentate and undecorated Lapita ware, and the forms of the non‐ceramic material, this paper makes a preliminary study of the local differences of t…
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
The Lapita ceramics that define the 'Lapita' cultural complex of the southwestern Pacific are named for the type-site of Lapita, on the south Melanesian island of Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia). The island archipelago's early sites are central to shaping what Lapita is, and - if Lapita is not alone - to how it meshes with the other precocious ceramics made by voyagers of the western Pacific. Varied radiocarbon determinations need to be collat…
Testing the human factor
Evolutions in the Lapita Cultural Complex
This paper discusses differences in the settlement strategies and cultural evolutions developed during the Lapita period, by comparing expansion and transformation processes identified in Southern Melanesia, particularly New Caledonia, with the wider regional data.Entering a region devoid of malaria and in some cases with geologically complex landforms, the Austronesian colonists, who arrived about 1000 BC, developed specific trends of the Lapita…
A pottery pit at locality WKO013A, Lapita (New Caledonia)
The discovery of a group of associated pots at site WKO013A is described. The eleven best preserved posts are described and illustrated, and their conservation noted
Connection and competition
Results of petrographic analysis for ten New Caledonian Lapita pottery assemblages are presented in this paper. These findings enable us to identify several major pottery production areas during the Lapita period. It could be argued that the rise of pottery production traditions at the northern bank of the Diahot Valley near Ouégoa/Pouébo in the north, and the region between Tontouta and Nouméa/Saint Louis in the south, was influential in the for…
Site LPO023 of Kurin
Recent studies have dramatically shortened the chronology of Lapita pottery production in Remote Oceania, allowing this easily identifiable, decorated ceramic ware to be used as a precise temporal marker of first Austronesian settlement in this vast region. Unresolved questions about the precise date of settlement of the Loyalty Islands, located strategically between southern Vanuatu and the Grande Terre of New Caledonia, hinted at a clear pictur…
Ancient DNA and its contribution to understanding the human history of the Pacific Islands
Two recent papers, by Lipson et al. and Posth et al., have challenged current interpretations of the initial settlement of Remote Oceania. We invited Stuart Bedford, who is an author on both papers, to outline their importance, and a number of scholars in various disciplines to comment on their findings
Les aléas de la construction identitaire multi-ethnique en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Cet article présente, dans ses grandes lignes, comment chaque communauté culturelle de Nouvelle- Calédonie perçoit de façon particulière les principales périodes de l'histoire humaine de l'archipel. Le constat de divergences de fond et de forme sur le sens de l'histoire suivant l'origine laisse néanmoins apparaître le côté de plus en plus multiple et mouvant des perceptions historiques dans chaque communauté. L'évolution contemporaine, accompagna…
Oceanic rock art
Rock art in an inland cave on the island of Lifou, New Caledonia, has been radiocarbon dated. A cluster of early paintings date to 2500 years ago, soon after the arrival of the first settlers, who must have quickly gone inland probably in pursuit of fresh water, available near the cave. They left their mark on the cave in the form of numerous hand stencils. During the first millennium AD, later generations of artists used the same cave, drawing b…
Empires maritimes préhistoriques dans le Pacifique
This article attempts to put into a local and regional historical context, the conditions under which, in the 15th-16th centuries, a Tongan colony was established on the island of Uvea (Wallis Island). In the middle of the second millenium AD the expansionism of the Tui Tonga dynasty from the island of Tongatapu led to the progressive occupation of the majority of the islands of Western Polynesia, with the installation of Tongan « Governors » and…
The Beginning of Southern Melanesian Prehistory
The peopling of the western Pacific south of the Solomon Islands started with the spread of Austronesian populations more than 3000 years ago. The initial colonization of Remote Oceania is archaeologically linked to the Lapita Cultural Complex identified at more than 100 major sites from Island Papua-New Guinea to western Polynesia by a distinctive type of dentate-stamped decorated pottery and associated items. Until the last decade, Lapita sites…
Inhumations préhistoriques en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Les témoignages ethnographiques et la présence d’ossements humains déconnectés en situation secondaire, dont certains dans des poteries utilisées entre le début et la fin du premier millénaire après J.-C., permettent de supposer des pratiques funéraires complexes dans les sociétés préhistoriques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. L’inhumation est un traitement du défunt possible dont les modalités : définitive ou provisoire, peuvent être identifiées grâce…
Variété de l'habitat ancien en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Sand Christophe. Variété de l'habitat ancien en Nouvelle-Calédonie : étude de cas sur les vestiges archéologiques du Centre-Nord de la Grande Terre. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 104, 1997-1. pp. 39-66
Sāmoan settlement pattern and star mounds of Manono Island
The small island of Manono, positioned between Upolu and Savaii in the Samoan Archipelago, is known in oral traditions of West Polynesia as having had an important political role during the immediate pre-Christian period. An archaeological programme carried out between 2012 and 2015 has mainly concentrated on the mapping of parts of the northern half of the island, around Salua Village. This has allowed us to study in detail a portion of the slop…
Ritually breaking L apita pots
One of the striking characteristics of Lapita archaeology during the past century has been the very limited number of preserved whole or nearly whole pots found in excavations. This appears odd for ceramics mostly interpreted in the scientific literature as non‐utilitarian and carrying social or ritual symbolism. The clear connection between dentate‐stamped pots and complex burial rituals at the T eouma site ( V anuatu), along with studies on pot…
La datation du premier peuplement de Wallis et Futuna
La date du premier peuplement de Wallis ('Uvea) et de Futuna en Polynésie occidentale reste débattue. Cet article propose une analyse des différentes datations Cl 4 publiées à ce jour sur le sujet, replacées dans leur contexte archéologique. L'étude critique des résultats permet de situer la plus ancienne arrivée de populations austronésiennes dans les deux îles dans une fourchette entre 900 et 800 ans avant J.-C. Cette proposition, discutée dans…
A dentate‐stamped Lapita dish from the central south coast of Papua
The chance recovery of a large pottery sherd from a flat‐bottomed dish with dentate‐stamped decoration in Galley Reach, about 50 km northwest of Port Moresby, raises interesting questions concerning interactions between Lapita arrivals and the established Melanesian communities of mainland Papua New Guinea. While the geographical proximity of the find to the Caution Bay Lapita sites would suggest some connection, an analysis of the sherd indicate…
Geological subsidence and sinking islands
W.R. Dickinson, as part of his wide study of the geological history of the Pacific islands, has linked the unique case of the deeply submerged Lapita site of Mulifanua in western Upolu (Samoa) to the slow subsidence of Upolu island. Recent archaeological research on the neighbouring small island of Manono has yielded new and detailed data on this geological process. A series of new dates has allowed us to define the speed of the subsidence and de…
Prehistory and its perception in a Melanesian Archipelago
What were the social structures of prehistoric Melanesia really like - and how did they evolve? This study of the archaeology of New Caledonia shows how the west has had a double impact on its prehistory. First, explorers altered the social structure by their arrival and the introduction of western diseases, and then anthropologists created an image of communities which were ancient, simple and static. New archaeological field data by contrast is…
A New Melanesian Rock‐Art Style
The paper presents the initial study of a unique rock‐art site discovered at the northern tip of the Mainland (Grande Terre) of New Caledonia. On the walls of a cliff‐face at the foot of a karst outcrop near Roche Mauprat, people have carved successive layers of geometric and figurative motifs. The fine, detailed engraving style of some human figures is unlike anything identified to date in the rock‐art of New Caledonia, where petroglyph anthropo…
A question of impact
Historical narratives on Oceania have over the last two centuries mainly focused on the second half of the eighteenth century as the significant period of first encounters between Pacific Islanders and Western explorers. However, the first crossing of the region by Fernando de Magallanes (Ferdinand Magellan) was in 1521. More importantly, it has been widely neglected that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Spanish, Dutch, and Portugu…
Archéogéographie et processus de territorialisation pré-contacts au Nord de la Grande Terre (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
L’intérêt porté par l’archéologie calédonienne au dernier millénaire de la chronologie pré-européenne s’est principalement développé avec la création du département Archéologie néo-calédonien au début des années 1990. Toute une série de programmes de terrain spécifiquement axés sur l’archéologie de ce qui a été défini comme l’« ensemble culturel traditionnel kanak » s’est alors mis en place. Progressivement, un ensemble de données et d’analyses p…
Données archéologiques et géomorphologiques du site anciein d'Asipani, Futuna, Polynésie occidentale
This text presents the results of the 1986' archaeological excavation of the SI-001A site of Asipani in Futuna (Western Polynesia). This excavation revealed the presence of occupation levels dated between 700 B.C. and the first centuries A.D. and more recent horticultural levels. The first part presents the general caracte- ristics of the site, the stratigraphy, the archaeological levels which have been differenciated, the C14 datations and the g…
Structural remains as markers of complex societies in southern Melanesia during prehistory
Recent developments in the study of New Caledonia's prehistory
Since the 1960's and 1970's, a number of archaeological overviews associating chronological evolution and cultural transformation in Oceanian archipelagos have been published (Yen and Gordon 1973; Kirch and Yen 1982; Best 1984; Davidson 1984; Kirch 1985, 1988b). These works are often based on determinist and evolutionist concepts (Kirch 1984) which, over and above typological elements such as the evolution of pottery and hook forms, take into con…
Variété de l'habitat ancien en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Sand Christophe. Variété de l'habitat ancien en Nouvelle-Calédonie : étude de cas sur les vestiges archéologiques du Centre-Nord de la Grande Terre. In: Journal de la Société des océanistes, 104, 1997-1. pp. 39-66
The chronology of Lapita ware in New Caledonia
The Lapita ceramics that define the 'Lapita' cultural complex of the southwestern Pacific are named for the type-site of Lapita, on the south Melanesian island of Nouvelle-Calédonie (New Caledonia). The island archipelago's early sites are central to shaping what Lapita is, and - if Lapita is not alone - to how it meshes with the other precocious ceramics made by voyagers of the western Pacific. Varied radiocarbon determinations need to be collat…
Cikobia
Cet article présente les premiers résultats archéologiques obtenus à Cikobia (Fidji) lors d'une mission franco-fidjienne effectuée en juillet-août 1997. La chronologie préhistorique de cette île débute vers 900 avant J.-C. avec un premier peuplement s'inscrivant dans l'ensemble culturel Lapita oriental. Il a été suivi d'une occupation progressive de l'espace, caractérisée notamment par la présence de plusieurs ensembles défensifs. Les données pré…
A pottery pit at locality WKO013A, Lapita (New Caledonia)
The discovery of a group of associated pots at site WKO013A is described. The eleven best preserved posts are described and illustrated, and their conservation noted
Empires maritimes préhistoriques dans le Pacifique
This article attempts to put into a local and regional historical context, the conditions under which, in the 15th-16th centuries, a Tongan colony was established on the island of Uvea (Wallis Island). In the middle of the second millenium AD the expansionism of the Tui Tonga dynasty from the island of Tongatapu led to the progressive occupation of the majority of the islands of Western Polynesia, with the installation of Tongan « Governors » and…
The Beginning of Southern Melanesian Prehistory
The peopling of the western Pacific south of the Solomon Islands started with the spread of Austronesian populations more than 3000 years ago. The initial colonization of Remote Oceania is archaeologically linked to the Lapita Cultural Complex identified at more than 100 major sites from Island Papua-New Guinea to western Polynesia by a distinctive type of dentate-stamped decorated pottery and associated items. Until the last decade, Lapita sites…
En pays kanak
En se situant toujours au plus près des gens, de leurs paroles et de leurs actions, ces seize textes précis et respectueux des variations régionales entendent rompre avec les considérations générales et globales qui escamotent le plus souvent le "grain" si particulier de la culture kanak. En retour, loin de tout exotisme et de tout passéisme, ce livre propose des outils d'investigation et d'analyse novateurs, pour aborder l’une des civilisations …
La datation du premier peuplement de Wallis et Futuna
La date du premier peuplement de Wallis ('Uvea) et de Futuna en Polynésie occidentale reste débattue. Cet article propose une analyse des différentes datations Cl 4 publiées à ce jour sur le sujet, replacées dans leur contexte archéologique. L'étude critique des résultats permet de situer la plus ancienne arrivée de populations austronésiennes dans les deux îles dans une fourchette entre 900 et 800 ans avant J.-C. Cette proposition, discutée dans…
The specificities of the ‘Southern Lapita Province
New studies on the Lapita phenomenon in New Caledonia have led to the identification of local patterns that allow the outlining of the concept of a ‘Southern Lapita Province‘, recently proposed by Kirch (1997). By defining the chronological limits and the typological characteristics of the dentate, non‐dentate and undecorated Lapita ware, and the forms of the non‐ceramic material, this paper makes a preliminary study of the local differences of t…
Inhumations préhistoriques en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Les témoignages ethnographiques et la présence d’ossements humains déconnectés en situation secondaire, dont certains dans des poteries utilisées entre le début et la fin du premier millénaire après J.-C., permettent de supposer des pratiques funéraires complexes dans les sociétés préhistoriques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie. L’inhumation est un traitement du défunt possible dont les modalités : définitive ou provisoire, peuvent être identifiées grâce…
Evolutions in the Lapita Cultural Complex
This paper discusses differences in the settlement strategies and cultural evolutions developed during the Lapita period, by comparing expansion and transformation processes identified in Southern Melanesia, particularly New Caledonia, with the wider regional data.Entering a region devoid of malaria and in some cases with geologically complex landforms, the Austronesian colonists, who arrived about 1000 BC, developed specific trends of the Lapita…
Waihou Journeys
Reviewed by: Waihou Journeys. The Archaeology of 400 years of Maori Settlement Christophe Sand Waihou Journeys. The Archaeology of 400 years of Maori Settlement. Caroline Phillips. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2000. 194 pp, 96 illustrations, bibliography, index. Softcover. $39.95 (NZD). ISBN: 1 86940 227 8. Waihou Journeys is the edited version of the Ph.D. thesis presented by C. Phillips at the University of Auckland in 1994. Centered on…
Site LPO023 of Kurin
Recent studies have dramatically shortened the chronology of Lapita pottery production in Remote Oceania, allowing this easily identifiable, decorated ceramic ware to be used as a precise temporal marker of first Austronesian settlement in this vast region. Unresolved questions about the precise date of settlement of the Loyalty Islands, located strategically between southern Vanuatu and the Grande Terre of New Caledonia, hinted at a clear pictur…
Les aléas de la construction identitaire multi-ethnique en Nouvelle-Calédonie
Cet article présente, dans ses grandes lignes, comment chaque communauté culturelle de Nouvelle- Calédonie perçoit de façon particulière les principales périodes de l'histoire humaine de l'archipel. Le constat de divergences de fond et de forme sur le sens de l'histoire suivant l'origine laisse néanmoins apparaître le côté de plus en plus multiple et mouvant des perceptions historiques dans chaque communauté. L'évolution contemporaine, accompagna…
Prehistory and its perception in a Melanesian Archipelago
What were the social structures of prehistoric Melanesia really like - and how did they evolve? This study of the archaeology of New Caledonia shows how the west has had a double impact on its prehistory. First, explorers altered the social structure by their arrival and the introduction of western diseases, and then anthropologists created an image of communities which were ancient, simple and static. New archaeological field data by contrast is…
Sépultures à caveau en Polynésie occidentale
Cet article présente, après avoir défini le contexte régional de l’émergence de traditions funéraires en caveau en Polynésie occidentale, l’étude d’un tertre funéraire (faitoka) sur l’île de ’Uvea, à partir des données croisées de la tradition orale, de l’archéologie et de l’anthropologie physique. La fouille du tertre de Petania a permis d’identifier deux périodes d’inhumations. Le niveau inférieur a été interprété comme un événement unique au c…
Dietary patterns during the late prehistoric/historic period in Cikobia island (Fiji)
Oceanic rock art
Rock art in an inland cave on the island of Lifou, New Caledonia, has been radiocarbon dated. A cluster of early paintings date to 2500 years ago, soon after the arrival of the first settlers, who must have quickly gone inland probably in pursuit of fresh water, available near the cave. They left their mark on the cave in the form of numerous hand stencils. During the first millennium AD, later generations of artists used the same cave, drawing b…
Faunal Extinction and Human Habitation in New Caledonia
Archaeological and palaeontological investigations occurred in 2003 at the Pindai Caves in New Caledonia, where remains of prehistoric settlement exist in conjunction with the richest fossil deposits found to date on Grand Terre. Among more than 45 bird taxa in our excavations at least 20 that are locally or globally extinct are represented at levels immediately below or within the era of human occupation. These include the giant megapode, Sylvio…
José Garanger, un grand archéologue océaniste
Comme il est de coutume pour un savant de renom, à l’occasion de son départ à la retraite, José Garanger reçut l’hommage de ses collègues et disciples sous la forme d’un bel ouvrage (Mémoire de pierre, Mémoire d’homme), témoin du respect et de l’affection de tous. Au début de cette publication (Julien et al., 1996), avait été rassemblée la bibliographie de José, comprenant pas moins de huit ouvrages et plus de quatre-vingts articles scientifiques…
Contribution à l’archéologie du « séjour paisible » kanak
Malgré les résultats multiples obtenus par le Pr José Garanger dans les années 1960-1970 lors des programmes de recherches liant traditions orales océaniennes et données archéologiques, peu de travaux ont été depuis menés en Mélanésie insulaire sur ce thème. Cet article souhaite contribuer à ce sujet, en présentant la première étude archéologique d’un hameau kanak ancien de la Grande Terre calédonienne. Le relevé du site de Tipéhéne, la fouille d…
A Revision of New Caledonia’s Ceramic Sequence
The terminology presently used for the prehistoric ceramic chronology in the archipelago of New Caledonia in southern Melanesia was defined by J.C. Galipaud in the late 1980s. Divided into two periods named Koné and Naïa-Oundjo, each characterised by different pottery traditions, the terminology of this chronology has been a useful research tool for the last two decades. But renewed excavations at numerous sites, as well as a wide program of dati…
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