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Les peignes À tatouer en nacre polynésiens. Un moyen d'appréhender la pensée technique

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2013

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Molle, Guillaume
Conte, Éric

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We present here a technological study of a collection of 17 archaeological pearl-shell tattooing combs. They have been discovered in three archipelagoes of French Polynesia. The study offers a reconstitution of the manufacturing processes involved in the "chaîne opératoire". Then, the combs are integrated to the existing typologies. For the first time, we also put them back in a diachronic perspective that allows new reflections about a model of regional development of these artifacts.

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Combs, Pearl-shell, Polynesia, Tattooing, Technology

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https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733797949

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Journal de la Societe des Oceanistes

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