The archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey
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Creator (person)
Shaw, Andrew
Bates, Martin
Conneller, Chantal
Gamble, Clive
Julien, Marie-Ann
McNabb, John
Pope, Matt
Scott, Becky
Date published
2016
Abstract
Excavations at the Middle Pleistocene site of La Cotte de St Brelade, on the island of Jersey in the English Channel, have revealed a long sequence of occupation. The continued use of the site by Neanderthals throughout an extended period of changing climate and environment reveals how, despite changes in the types of behaviour recorded at the site, La Cotte emerged as a persistent place in the memory and landscape of its early hominin inhabitants. The site's status as a persistent place for these people suggests a level of social and cognitive development permitting reference to and knowledge of places distant in time and space as long ago as at least MIS 7.
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'Crossing the threshold: the evolution of place and landscape in earliest prehistory
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Arts and Humanities Research Council | AH/K00378X/1 |
Journal title
Antiquity
Volume
90
Issue
354
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Place of publication
Cambridge
ISSN
0003-598X
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