{"product_id":"repeopling-la-manche-new-perspectives-on-neanderthal-archaeology-and-landscapes-from-la-cotte-de-st-brelade-9781789251524","title":"Repeopling La Manche: New Perspectives on","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe current geography of north-west Europe, from the perspective of long-term Pleistocene climate change, is temporary. The seaways that separate southern Britain from northern France comprise a flooded landscape open to occupation by hunter-gatherers for large parts of the 0.5 million years since the English Channel’s formation. While much of this record is now inaccessible to systematic archaeological investigation it is critical that we consider past human societies in the region in terms of access to, inhabitation in, and exploitation of this landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis latest volume of the acclaimed \u003cem\u003ePrehistoric Society Research Papers\u003c\/em\u003e provides a starting point for approaching the Middle Palaeolithic record of the English Channel region and considering the ecological opportunities and behavioural constraints this landscape offered to Neanderthal groups in north-west Europe. The volume reviews the Middle Palaeolithic archaeological record along the fringes of La Manche in northern France and southern Britain. It examines this record in light of recent advances in quaternary stratigraphy, science-based dating, and palaeoecology and explores how Palaeolithic archaeology in the region has developed in an interdisciplinary way to transform our understanding of Neanderthal behaviour. Focusing in detail on a particular sub-region of this landscape, the Normano-Breton Gulf, the volume presents the results of recent research focused on exceptionally productive coastal capture points for Neanderthal archaeology. In turn the long-term behavioural record of La Cotte de St Brelade is presented and explored, offering a key to changing Neanderthal behaviour. Aspects of movement into and through these landscapes, changing technological and raw material procurement strategies, hunting patterns and site structures, are presented as accessible behaviours that change at site and landscape scales in response to changing climate, sea level and ecology over the last 250,000 years.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Figures and Tables  Contributors  Abstract  French Language Abstract  German Language Abstract  Acknowledgements  1. Repeopling La Manche: survey and encounters  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eMatt Pope  2. La Cotte de St Brelade: a key early Middle Palaeolithic geoarchaeological sequence in La Manche  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eAndrew Shaw  3. In pursuit of the mammoths  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eKatharine Scott  4. The early Middle Palaeolithic ‘bone heaps’ from La Cotte de St Brelade reconsidered  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eAndrew Shaw, Beccy Scott \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eMatt Pope  5. Coming home: reconstructing place and landscape during the early Middle Palaeolithic at La Cotte de St Brelade  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eAndrew Shaw \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eBeccy Scott  6. Jersey’s north facing property: the Neanderthal sequence at La Cotte à la Chèvre Cave  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eJosie Mills  7. Understanding the context of Palaeolithic archaeology in the Normanno-Breton Gulf: the importance of the Pleistocene coastal sequences  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eMartin R. Bates, John Renouf \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eMarine Laforge  8. La Cotte, Neanderthals and Goldilocks: investigating hominin adaptations in the submerged landscapes of the Normanno-Breton Gulf  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eC. Richard Bates, Andrew Shaw, Martin R. Bates, Matt Pope \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eBeccy Scott  9. Archaeological sequences, framework, and lithic overview of the late Middle Pleistocene of northern France  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eDavid Hérisson, Jean-Luc Locht, Émilie Goval, Pierre Antoine \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eSylvie Coutard  10. La Cotte in its regional context: reconsidering La Manche  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eBeccy Scott \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eAnne-Lyse Ravon  11. Mind and society: re-imagining the archaeology of Neanderthals  \u003cem\u003eBy \u003c\/em\u003eClive Gamble \u003cem\u003eand \u003c\/em\u003eMatt Pope  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Oxbow Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49535617990999,"sku":"9781789251524","price":41.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781789251524.jpg?v=1731898889","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/repeopling-la-manche-new-perspectives-on-neanderthal-archaeology-and-landscapes-from-la-cotte-de-st-brelade-9781789251524","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}