Megalithic Jersey

19/04/2024

Come and join the Société Jersiaise Archaeology Section on a fascinating walk around St Clements exploring our Megaliths..... All welcome!

20/07/2022

Archaeology Festival 2022

The People of the Dunes, a film about archaeology in Normandy awarded at the Rovereto International Archaeological Film Festival

19/07/2022

On this evening at 5.30pm. You can just turn up

Walk & talk with Dr Matt Pope about recent work at La Cotte, part of the Archaeology Section's British Council of Archaeology 2022 Festival

19/07/2022

Walk & talk with Dr Matt Pope about recent work at La Cotte, part of the Archaeology Section's British Council of Archaeology 2022 Festival

12/07/2022

12/07/2022

La Societe Jersiaise is participating in the British Council of Archaeology's 2022 Festival by putting on its own programme of events.
It starts this weekend on Saturday with the Fetes des Dolmens, a tour around the Islands Neolithic dolmens. I will be hosting this tour and it is bookable via EventBrite as per the programme.

10/04/2022

Interesting article! Amazing what appears to be capable of extraction!

First nuclear DNA from sediment shows turnover, migration among ancient cave dwellers in Spain

08/04/2022

Interesting finding suggesting that Neanderthals and Humans mixed and the former may not have become extinct, but continued within the latter.

A re-study of the prehistoric find from 1910 suggests interbreeding between two human species.

03/04/2022

The sleeping Lady, regarded as one of the most important prehistoric finds from the temples in Malta. Absolutely beautiful!

03/04/2022

In Malta at the moment looking at some of the Island's prehistoric past. Great Archaeology Museum displaying some of the very varied era artefacts. Loved these designs on the Neolithic pottery.

05/03/2022

Further to post the other day, I watched the film the Iceman (it is on Prime) which is based on Otzi, who was discovered in the Alpes. It prompted me to find out some more about him.

The famed mummy died from an arrow to the back on a high Alpine mountain pass 5,300 years ago. Now researchers are tracing his unusual movements right before his murder.

04/03/2022

Met the team last year when they were taking samples at Green Island. Should be really interesting when they have results which will add considerably to Jersey's fabulous geological history!

Another update from Dr Thomas Stevens and PhD researcher Yunus Baykal on their work to date our loess and raised beaches.

Yunus is now preparing samples in Denmark (under artificial light) for detailed OSL dating. This will determine the last time these ancient sediments were exposed to light, giving us a date for their deposition. This should mean that the story of Jersey’s history over the last 200,000 years should soon become a lot clearer.

The team are also on the island again in March, working closely with local researchers, to identify new sites for future dating.

More updates soon!