Revealed: Secrets of the great survivors
Wednesday 31st August 2011, 2:57PM BST.
Dr Matt Pope and Olga Finch pictured at the cave at La Cotte during their work in July
AN ancient cave in Jersey is revealing important new information about how our prehistoric ancestors survived periods of significant climate change, according to a leading archaeologist.
Dr Matt Pope, a senior research fellow and archaeologist at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, says his team’s work at La Cotte has unearthed ‘exceptional data’ which shows that Neanderthal man was ‘an incredible survivor’.
Dr Pope has heralded the cave in St Brelade, on the headland at Ouaisné Bay, as a site of international importance. Together with experts from four UK universities, he spent time surveying the cave, the sea-bed at St Brelade and a field in St Saviour earlier this summer.
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What’s this? Cavemen lived in caves?? well I never..
Its kind of self explanatory really as we wouldn’t be here if they weren’t good survivors.
Please excuse my ignorance on this but who employs people to do this sort of thing? I’d love to go exploring fields, beaches and caves for a living.
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