Primitive Man In New
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Caledonia
HAVING spent six months in Ne; Caledonia the University o California’s Archaeological Exped tion, led by Professor E. W. Giffor' completed its work at the end c August, and returned to USA wit large quantities of material for studl 52 sites were examined—ll of ther by excavation.
The scientists collected potsherd! charcoal, ground and polished ston implements, chipped stone impk ments and things made of she!
Laboratory examination of thes will show the age of the culture; and some of the conditions unde which the people lived.
The material gathered, apart froi potsherds, was not abundant. Pr« liminary survey suggests that the ii digenous population of New CaM donia was of Melanesian type an came from overseas rather later tha the settlement of Fiji. The scier tists found no pre-pottery culturr level. The first arrivals appear t have been in the Neolithic stage.
The expedition had the approve of the Pacific Science Board of tE National Research Council, Washim ton, DC.