ABSTRACT
Comparing archaeological artifacts in the Musée de l’Homme in Paris at the end of the 1940s, geologist J. Avias observed identical prehistoric pottery in similar types of seashore locations on the island of Watom (Papua New Guinea) and in New Caledonia (Isle of Pines). This led him to argue that,
we can deduce that with a probability close to certainty, the same human group (in an ethnic sense) has stopped or has sojourned in these two locations of the Pacific, although these are a couple of thousands of kilometers apart. . . . [T]he pottery civilization of Vao (Isle of Pines) may be related to some pots from Foué near Koné.
