Repeopling La Manche

Beccy Scott is Palaeolithic curator in the Department of Britain, Europe and Prehistory at the British Museum, London, working on Palaeolithic collections as part of the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain (AHOB) and Pathways to Ancient Britain (PAB) projects. She is Honorary Senior Research Fellow in the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Andrew Shaw works as a Palaeolithic specialist for Wessex Archaeology having obtained his PhD from Durham on the Lower and Middle Palaeolithic of Syria. Subsequently, as a member of Southampton University’s Crossing the Threshold Project he focused on the Early Middle Palaeolithic material from La Cotte de St Brelade. His primary research interest is the reconstruction of Lower and Middle Palaeolithic technological decision making and human behaviour in relation to the varying landscapes and environmental contexts of the late Middle and Upper Pleistocene. Katharine Scott is internationally recognised for her work on Middle and Upper Pleistocene vertebrate fossils. Her fieldwork at various Upper Thames Quaternary sites concentrated especially on the 10-year excavation of 200,000-year-old fossiliferous deposits at Stanton Harcourt near Oxford. This now comprises the largest collection of excavated mammoths in Britain. She is an Emeritus Fellow and Former Dean of Degrees at St Cross College, University of Oxford, and an Honorary Associate of the Oxford University Museum. She is the author of Mammoths and Neanderthals in the Thames Valley: Excavations at Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire (with Christine Buckingham, 2021). Matt Pope is Associate Professor in Palaeolithic archaeology at the University College London Institute of Archaeology. He is currently leading on excavations at the Neanderthal site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey, as well as further high-profile Palaeolithic excavations in Southern Britain and the Channel Islands. He is the author of, amongst other publications, The Horse Butchery Site: A high-resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK (with Simon Parfitt and Mark Roberts, 2020) and co-editor of Crossing the Human Threshold: Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Late Middle Pleistocene (with John McNabb and Clive Gamble, 2017, 2019).

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1. Repeopling La Manche: survey and encounters

By Matt Pope

2. La Cotte de St Brelade: a key early Middle Palaeolithic geoarchaeological sequence in La Manche

By Andrew Shaw

3. In pursuit of the mammoths

By Katharine Scott

4. The early Middle Palaeolithic ‘bone heaps’ from La Cotte de St Brelade reconsidered

By Andrew Shaw, Beccy Scott and Matt Pope

5. Coming home: reconstructing place and landscape during the early Middle Palaeolithic at La Cotte de St Brelade

By Andrew Shaw and Beccy Scott

6. Jersey’s north facing property: the Neanderthal sequence at La Cotte à la Chèvre Cave

By Josie Mills

7. Understanding the context of Palaeolithic archaeology in the Normanno-Breton Gulf: the importance of the Pleistocene coastal sequences

By Martin R. Bates, John Renouf and Marine Laforge

8. La Cotte, Neanderthals and Goldilocks: investigating hominin adaptations in the submerged landscapes of the Normanno-Breton Gulf

By C. Richard Bates, Andrew Shaw, Martin R. Bates, Matt Pope and Beccy Scott

9. Archaeological sequences, framework, and lithic overview of the late Middle Pleistocene of northern France

By David Hérisson, Jean-Luc Locht, Émilie Goval, Pierre Antoine and Sylvie Coutard

10. La Cotte in its regional context: reconsidering La Manche

By Beccy Scott and Anne-Lyse Ravon

11. Mind and society: re-imagining the archaeology of Neanderthals

By Clive Gamble and Matt Pope

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