Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on Neanderthal Archaeology and Landscapes from La Cotte de St Brelade

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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 Universitys 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 200000-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).