"Jersey was a must-see tourist destination for Neanderthals" Topic
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Tango01 | 12 Dec 2016 4:03 p.m. PST |
… for over 100,000 years "As part of a re-examination of La Cotte de St Brelade and its surrounding landscape, archaeologists from Southampton, together with experts from three other universities and the British Museum, have taken a fresh look at artefacts and mammoth bones originally excavated from within the site's granite cliffs in the 1970s. Their findings are published in the journal Antiquity. The researchers matched types of stone raw material used to make tools to detailed mapping of the geology of the sea bed, and studied in detail how they were made, carried and modified. This helped reconstruct a picture of what resources were available to Neanderthals over tens of thousands of years -- and where they were travelling from. Lead author Dr Andy Shaw of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins (CAHO) at the University of Southampton said: "La Cotte seems to have been a special place for Neanderthals. They kept making deliberate journeys to reach the site over many, many generations. We can use the stone tools they left behind to map how they were moving through landscapes, which are now beneath the English Channel. 180,000 years ago, as ice caps expanded and temperatures plummeted, they would have been exploiting a huge offshore area, inaccessible to us today."…" Main page link Amicalement Armand |
Dale Hurtt | 12 Dec 2016 8:27 p.m. PST |
Have you seen "Jersey Shore"? Still is! |
Chris Vermont | 13 Dec 2016 4:41 a.m. PST |
Damn, Dale beat me to it. |
Tango01 | 13 Dec 2016 10:31 a.m. PST |
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