Archaeological researches
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Pre-European History Of
New Caledonia
will be carried out in New Caledonia, between February and September, 1952, by Professor E. W. Gifford and Mrs. Gifford, of
the Museum of Anthropology, Ur versity of California.
The expedition led by Profess Gifford will be similar to that whi< he directed in Fiji in 1947, ai which gave very interesting resu!
Professor Gifford hopes to esta lish, by excavation in New Cal donia, the presence or absence cultural sequences, just as he d in Fiji.
On account of its geographic situation (in the south-west tip the more southerly Pacific arch pelagoes, and nearest the Australis eastern coast) New Caledonia iru give the investigators some interes ing results.