Anthropological Records Vol. 18, No. 1: Archaeological Excavations in New Caledonia

Description

Authors: Gifford, E.W. (Edward Winslow) (1887-1959) and Shutler, Dick, Jr.  (1921-2007)

Publisher: University of California Press

Pub Date: 1956

Binding: Paperback (paper tape)

Condition: Fair.  Paper tape binding tight.  No tears, bends, folds.  Previous owner’s name stamped on upper front cover corner, and on upper corner Table of Contents.  Gift inscription on upper corner title page.  Spine head worn.  Partial title and authors hand-written on spine.  Some edge and corner wear.

Notes: 1952.  Seven months in the field, 53 sites surveyed, 11 excavated.  The most important site, known as Lapita (Site 13), contained pottery and charcoal samples that dated to the early colonization of Oceania.  The pottery they found dated to at least 3,000 years ago.   The charcoal samples dated to the ninth and fifth centuries BC.   Descendants of these colonizers of New Caledonia went on, over the next two thousand years, to populate the rest of the Pacific.  The gift inscription “To Bill and Nettie, from Dick” may make this an association copy between Shutler and William Y. Adams.  The volume is from Adams’ library (his stamp on upper front cover corner), and  Shutler, Gifford, and Adams worked together in Arizona in the late 1940s, but without a sample of Shutler’s handwriting, pure speculation.  Nice thought though.