Dr Matt Pope
@MatthewPope
Associate Professor. UCL. Prehistorian. Passionate about human origins, Neanderthal archaeology, Palaeolithic cultures and Ice Age geoarchaeology.
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At the British Museum for the second day of the Palaeolithic Mesolithic Meeting 2024. It is just so good to be here in person with everyone. We've missed this.
Dr Rob O'Toole (powered by Kate Bush & Lavazza) Dr Matt Pope Homepride Fred as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man.
The tip of what would have been a very elegant and symmetrical Moustetian scraper. Made over 50,000 years ago in a stunning red jasper. Lost or discarded in the cave of La Cotte de St Brelade, where a hearth fire consumed and fractured the tool.
#FindsFriday #IceAgeIsland
The reason why there was an open letter - because the whole discussion around the rights and wrongs of the tunnel (... and the archaeology) is skewed...
#Stonehenge #Archaeology
Day 8 Castlepook cave 2024 excavations - Piper from LJMU Biological & Environmental Sciences doing the registry this morning of all our finds thus far. Warmer today and dry so far and calm, plenty of midges out! Others gone into the team in search of more ice age #IrishCaveBones !
Daily News review of ‘Downland Pathways’ 100 years ago: “Mr Allcroft writes like a master of the subject… who has little patience with those who are less so. The pose is not unuseful to the reader for it teaches him a scepticism towards all archaeologists… #HillfortsWednesday