Archéologie et histoire du Sinnamary du xviie au xxe s. (Guyane)

• Main Author: Puaux, Olivier (auth)
• Other Authors: Philippe, Michel (auth), Picavet, Régis (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Published: Paris Éditions de la Maison des sciences de l'homme 1997
• Series: Documents d'archéologie française
• Subjects: Archaeology; colonisation; cartographie; or; bagne; Petit Saut; Amérindiens; Annamites; concessions aurifères; drague aurifère; Inini; orpaillage; toponyme
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

The construction of the dam at Petit Saut by Électricité de France in the French Guyane gave place to an important archaeological rescue operation. Carried out from 1990 to 1995, this was the largest ever programme for an overseas French department of which the history was scarcely known. This vol...