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"Southern archaeology" : the French départements and territories d'Outre-Mer in the Indian Ocean (2013)
DOCUMENT Citation Only Edouard JACQUOT.

At the beginning of the present decade, France developed a new policy for archaeology in its dependencies in the southern Indian Ocean and a department of the French ministry of culture and communication was created to oversee it. Reunion island was uninhabited before its colonization by the French, and was one of the last places in the world where no organised archaeological research had previously been undertaken. Our research program on the island provided two important discoveries related to...