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Lot of six different postcards on the decorated caves of Kalimantan (Indonesia)
Who was able to penetrate 300 meters deep into a cave in the Aveyron Gorge to build structures composed of more than 400 broken stalagmites? At what time? And above all, why? Since the discovery of the cave in 1990, this amazing architecture has never revealed its secrets.
30 years after the Gaisseau expedition which signed the first crossing of New Guinea south-north, two young people decide to put their steps in those of their elder. Escaping the surveillance of the Indonesian military, they walk to the meeting of the forbidden mountain. More than 1,000 kilometers of hard work in territories where fascinating Papuans,...
Imagine a deserted island, lost in the confines of Chilean Patagonia, at 52 degrees south latitude... An island beaten by furious winds, drowned by torrential rains... To be interested in this pebble facing the Pacific, you have to be a castaway, a madman... or a caver.
In Borneo, the dismay of a swallow nest hunter facing the disaster of the forest and the end of the swallows. But, well hidden in some caves, Tewet hides another treasure, which could help his community...
In February 2000, a team of speleologists from Centre Terre explored the wild coast of Madre de Dios Island, in the Chilean Patagonian archipelago, in an inflatable boat. There, in a giant cave, which could contain Notre-Dame de Paris, they discover whale bones: skulls, vertebrae and giant ribs... How to explain this mystery, knowing that the cave is...
An extraordinary scientific adventure, told by the protagonists themselves: the discovery of a new cave art, more than 10,000 years old, during a dozen missions in the jungle and caves of Kalimantan (Indonesian Borneo), led by speleologist Luc-Henri Fage, CNRS archaeologist Jean-Michel Chazine and their Indonesian partner Pindi Setiawan. These exceptional...
It tells the story of how, by dint of persistence, luck and intuition, a speleologist and an archaeologist, a researcher at the CNRS, find the thread to go back in time in the lost caves in the heart of Borneo, the third largest island on the planet, and virgin to any archaeological research.
BOOK. The testimony of an extraordinary adventure, told by the protagonists themselves: the exceptional discovery of a prehistoric art over 10,000 years old... This magnificently illustrated work makes us discover the richness, the complexity and the antiquity of this region of the world today threatened. A very beautiful book.IN FRENCH, ALSO EXISTS IN...
Borneo: Memory of the Caves is the account of an extraordinary adventure, told by the protagonists who made the exceptional discovery of the rock art murals of Kalimantan which are over ten thousand years old. Their findings shed new light on how populations developed between Southeast Asia and Australia. ENGLISH LANGUAGE