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The archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey

Shaw, A; Bates, M; Conneller, C; Gamble, C; Julien, M-A; McNabb, J; Pope, M; (2016) The archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey. Antiquity , 90 (354) pp. 1437-1453. 10.15184/aqy.2016.212. Green open access

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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.

Type: Article
Title: The archaeology of persistent places: the Palaeolithic case of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2016.212
Publisher version: http://dx.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.212
Language: English
Additional information: Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd, 2016. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Keywords: Jersey, Middle Pleistocene, Neanderthals, persistent place, landscapes
UCL classification: UCL
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URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10038757
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