La Cotte de St Brelade and exploring the Neanderthal landscapes of the English Channel

The dramatic granite headland of La Cotte de St Brelade is a key site for understanding human origins. A series of ravines preserve a deep sequence of Ice Age sediment which, over the past 150 years has produced over 200,000 stone artefacts and large quantities of preserved large mammal remains as well as a key long-term record of climate and environmental change in the region. Recently a team lead by Dr Matt Pope have returned to the site, working with Jersey Heritage to protect the site from further erosion and to continue research excavation at the site. Join Matt on this tour to learn about this work and the recent revelation that a human fossil from the site may represent a population with shared Neanderthal and Homo sapiens ancestry.