A UK archaeological research team are returning to Jersey this
October to undertake scientific analysis at the Neanderthal site of La Cotte de
St Brelade.
The team, funded through a National Environment Research Council (NERC)
Urgency Award, are currently mobilising to undertake sampling and stabilisation
work ahead of winter. The site and the team’s research featured in
Digging
For Britain, on BBC2.
Dr Pope said, “The NERC award has provided a chance to study and
stabilise an area of the site which had remained hidden under scree for at least
60 years. During last summer our team established this section of the site was
at threat from erosion. It’s unlikely that anyone alive has seen these deposits
and we had pretty much thought they were lost to modern scientific study.
Through this NERC-funded work, we now have an opportunity to show what targeted
science-based archaeology can do to enhance our understanding of the deep
past.”
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