Associate Professor. UCL. Prehistorian. Passionate about human origins, Neanderthal archaeology, Palaeolithic cultures and Ice Age geoarchaeology.
London
Joined March 2009
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Recent progress in studies of the last million years of human physical and behavioural evolution. James Cole, Eleanor M.L. Scerri, Mateja Hajdinjak, Chris Stringer rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/…
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Archaeologists working in our field next to #LaHougueBie have so far discovered evidence of 6,000 yrs of human activity, from the #Neolithic to the last century. Drop in and take a look at the dig site tomorrow (2nd) from 10am-2.30pm.
@MatthewPope @UCLarchaeology @Soc_Jersiaise
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ALT People working in the soil of a field using specialist archaeological equipment
ALT Two people wearing brightly coloured vested in a field with specialist equipment
ALT People in a field wearing brightly coloured vests and with buckets and other equipment for archaeological use
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The man behind the microscope is our Conservator Neil. Join him and his colleague, Harry, this Sat (18th) at #JerseyArchive and discover how we conserve our collections. Watch a demo and then have a go yourself. Find out more at jerseyheritage.org/visit/wha…
#DiscoverTheCollections
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120,000-year-old European fallow deer—tracing the loss of genetic diversity phys.org/news/2026-06-year-e… via @physorg_com
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Applications are now open to join our 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷tinyurl.com/5duy6twh
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The Kabua 1 Skull: What a Long-Neglected Kenyan Fossil Says About Late Pleistocene Human Diversity. Dated to at least 64,000 years old, the Kabua 1 cranium is mostly Homo sapiens and partly something harder to place anthropology.net/p/the-kabua…
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Ancient DNA reveals a hidden Neanderthal group frozen in time | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/20…
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Applications are now open to join the 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷tinyurl.com/5duy6twh
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Great to see our paper on ancient dogs published yesterday! And all credit to Simon Parfitt, who recognised there were dogs at Gough's Cave long before there was any aDNA evidence of it...
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Here I witter on about Rapa Nui, the Routledges, Heyerdahl and other topics from my book, all but nonstop for an hour (I at least find these things endlessly fascinating!)
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Revisiting Creswell Crags: applying digital methods to reassess the northernmost examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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OBJECT OF THE WEEK: Kents Cavern Skull
On display in our Holden gallery, this skull belonging to a woman aged 25 years was discovered in Kents Cavern and is believed to be about 5,000 years old. There have been three seperate species of human that have been discovered there.
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Homo sapiens could have hunted with bow and arrow from the onset of the early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia: iScience cell.com/iscience/fulltext/S…
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Jersey Heritage to launch online ‘finds’ system after ‘treasure law’ passed dlvr.it/TRDJQ3
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Just sitting alone by a dolmen – in this case the V-shaped passage grave of Kermario in Carnac before its restoration in the 1920s. This card by Le Rouzic was first issued pre-1904 and continued to be issued up to the 1920s with at least 9 different print runs.
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Peggy Taylor made illegal crystal radio sets during the #Occupation so Islanders could secretly listen to the BBC news - just one of the women's stories you can discover in our 'Life after Liberation' exhibition at #JerseyMuseum. Open daily and entry is FREE. #WomensHistoryMonth
ALT Peggy Taylor made illegal crystal radio sets during the Occupation so that Islanders could listen secretly to the BBC news
ALT Joan Salmon was deported to a German internment camp during the Occupation and kept an important record of the experience of deportees
ALT After Liberation, women played significant roles in Jersey's recovery, including the 1948 election of the first female politician, Ivy Forster. Image courtesy of JEP
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It’s #ChristmasEve so today’s #Jèrriais ‘Word of the Week’ is suitably festive!
“Eune gâche fouôrrée” – a mince pie - translates literally as “a stuffed cake”.
#HeritageChristmas #Food #WordOfTheWeek #Language #IntangibleHeritage #OurIslandStory @GovJersey @LearnJerriais
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Here it is: the annual "top stories in human evolution" @PLOS SciComm blog post for 2025, by our own Ryan McRae and Briana Pobiner! From chimp cognition to fossil fingers to new details on Denisovans, it's been a great year for paleoanthropology. scicomm.plos.org/2025/12/19/…
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Our partner @jerseygeopark is looking for a new Geopark and Landscape Engagement Curator to help it develop its work and move from an aspiring #Geopark to reach #UNESCO Global Geopark status.
Interested? Go to jerseyheritage.org/jobs/geop…
#Jobs #AspiringJIGeopark #OurIslandStory
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