Repeopling La Manche: new perspectives on Neanderthal archaeology and landscapes from La Cotte de St Brelade

REVIEW BY FRANCIS WENBAN-SMITH This volume presents an interim report on the current research into Middle Palaeolithic Neanderthal occupation on Jersey and in its vicinity, centred on re-investigation of La Cotte de St Brelade rock-shelter and its distinctive mammoth bone heaps (previously interpreted as representing a mammoth-drive kill-site). We are reminded that the current, relatively high interglacial sea-level submerges what would have been the more-significant part of the previous Neanderthal inhabitants’ Ice Age landscape under La Manche (or the English Channel, according to taste), and invited to explore this landscape in an imagined metaphorical way rather than through more-tr