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Archaeology is promoted in Jersey by the Société Jersiaise [1] and by Jersey Heritage. [2] Promotion in the Bailiwick of Guernsey being undertaken by La Société Guernesiaise, Guernsey Museums, the Alderney Society with World War II work also undertaken by Festung Guernsey.
Neanderthals lived there at various times between around 250,000 years ago and after 48,000 years ago—making it the earliest known occupation of the Channel Islands by a hominin species, and also possibly one of the last Neanderthal sites in northwestern Europe. It is the only site in the British Isles to have produced late Neanderthal fossils.
In 1959, the socialite and philanthropist Kitty Harvey, granddaughter of Fred Harvey and heir of the Fred Harvey Company, funded an archaeology expedition to the Channel Islands. [7] It was under the leadership of Phil C. Orr, curator of anthropology and paleontology at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History , who had been prospecting the ...
The remaining hoards comprise Roman coins, some of which may have been buried by Armorican Celts fleeing from Roman armies during the campaigns of Julius Caesar in the mid 1st century B.C. [2] Although the contents of most Iron Age and Roman hoards found in the Channel Islands originated from nearby France or Britain, one hoard that was ...
San Miguel Island is the westernmost island in the Channel Islands. [1] The island sits between the Santa Barbara Channel and the Pacific Ocean and is often notably battered by winds all year round, but the Daisy Cave itself provides solace from the weather and has served as an effective shelter time and time again.
They were discovered by metal detectorists Reg Mead and Richard Miles in a field at an undisclosed location in the parish of Grouville on the east side of Jersey in the Channel Islands. It is the largest hoard ever found in Jersey, and the first major archaeological find made by metal detectorists in the island.
Braje, Todd, Jon Erlandson, & Torben Rick (2021) Islands Through Time: A Human and Ecological History of California's Northern Channel Islands. New York: Rowman & Littlefield. Gill, Kristina M., Mikael Fauvelle, & Jon M. Erlandson (editors) (2019) An Archaeology of Abundance: Reevaluating the Marginality of California's Islands.
History of the Channel Islands — the islands that are U.K. dependent territories in the English Channel, ... Archaeology of the Channel Islands; C.