Two heritage professionals examine a mammoth bone ahead of photography
We're in the news today with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social working on the #LaCotte animal bone they curate. Join Olga Finch, @lettyingrey.bsky.social , Josie Mills and me in person this Saturday for a @archaeologyuk.bsky.social festival open day www.facebook.com/share/p/1EXM...
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A view over a sandy Bay and blue sea towards granite headland framed by palm trees. All under a blue sky
I'm in Jersey this week, working on fauna from #LaCotte de St Brelade with @jerseyheritage.bsky.social and planning summer fieldwork
I'm starting with lunch and a beautiful view of the site, all framed by lovely Cordylines.
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Our book, Repeopling La Manche, is available direct from Oxbow Books.
Sharing research the Neanderthal archaeology of #LaCotte and the Ice Age landscapes of Jersey and La Mancheland.
www.oxbowbooks.com/978178925152...
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Paul Callow, Charles McBurney, Arthur Mourant standing at the foot of the West Ravine bluff in the year i was born, 1972. This is inter-generational work.
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Is there any precedent for a base 26 artefact numbering system using 3 letters. This from the 1930s at #LaCotte. We are happy to have cracked it, but now we are asking why did they use it? It's not Excel friendly.
In Amesbury today to work with @wessexarch colleague Andy Shaw on #LaCotte Neanderthal artefacts. Got here early enough to pay respect to some much younger #archaeology
Our book, Repeopling La Manche, is available direct from @OxbowBooks
Sharing research the Neanderthal archaeology of #LaCotte and the Ice Age landscapes of Jersey and La Mancheland. 🦣 www.oxbowbooks.com/9781789251524/repeopling...
I'll be speaking about #LaCotte and the Last Neanderthal People of La Mancheland at the @CurrentArchaeo Live 2024 Conference on 24 February at the UCL Institute of Education, London.
Get your tickets via the link below.
See you there!
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Report writing today on the 2023 #LaCotte season, so #FieldworkFriday flashbacks to last summer. This was the site at the halfway stage, initiating the second step of our planned reduction, opening up last cold stage deposits with Neanderthal archaeology.
As I travel to Jersey this weekend to talk about our work for @JerseyWordFest I'm resharing this chunky elongated Middle Palaeolithic tool from #LaCotte. It featured on the cover of the original book, but here is photographed by @PerryMesney #FindsFriday
Last find of the #LaCotte 2023 season, very appropriately the proximal end of a Levallois flake. The later Neanderthal levels here show far more of this technique than earlier ones. We think this flake was discarded about 60,000 years ago. #FlintFriday
Last couple of days on site at #LaCotte for 2023. Prof Martin Bates and @LettyIngrey leading on the scientific sampling today.
Today's #LaCotte descender is me! I need to lean back more but my pulse rate and adrenals behave themselves better these days.
Team #Geomarine helping to get our survey kit dowm (as well as us). We can each manage a rucksack but the total station is bit of a challenge. #LaCotte
The start of Week 3 at #LaCotte. @LettyIngrey and Stefan Bryant from @ArchSouthEast about to make their descents.
End of working week view from the top of #LaCotte a view over the hunting ground, exposed by the low tide, described in our 2013 paper. www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/...
Our ever-attentive survey droid working with their human colleague at #LaCotte today. #IceAgeIsland
We're back to it today now the storm has passed. Here's @LettyIngrey and @DrDufftown surveying in the granite architecture of the West Ravine at #LaCotte. Having survey control means we can use the unchanging solid rick to tie into previous excavations
Three of the important people who help make #LaCotte happen. Project manager for @JerseyHeritage, Chris O'Connor and, for Geomarine, Steph Forster and Chris Bardsley.
We're starting what will be a challenging week at #LaCotte with seeming autumn gales blowing through. Last week we achieved, through the survey expertise of Geomarine and @EdBlinkhorn, the first robust and total survey control for this complicated site. 1/N
No Giant Handaxes at La Cotte, but here's @LettyIngrey from @ArchSouthEast making a descent in search of Late Neanderthal artefacts at #LaCotte #IceAgeIsland #FieldworkFriday
Dr Andy Shaw of @wessexarch is the first to make the descent to #LaCotte today.
The first part of our #LaCotte season is all about trying to establish a robust series of survey points for the entire site. Something never achieved before. Here is @MarcStirrup, if you can see him, getting into position to establish reflectors needed. #IceAgeIsland
First morning for #LaCotte '23. @ArchSouthEast Survey team about to deploy alongside #Geomarine engineers. Loving our new, vented, Petzl helmets. #IceAgeIsland.
We've arrived! Getting set up for #IceAgeLand 2023. 21 days excavating at the Palaeolithic sites of #LaCotte and #LesVarines.
Another siting of #LaCotte in Bergerac. Here the nw corner in profile by Crozier's head. S4E8 'Sins of the Father'.
