EPISODE · Aug 29, 2020 · 50 MIN
The Boxgrove Horse Butchery Site with Dr. Matt Pope - TAS 100
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A half-a-million-year-old internationally significant archaeological site in Sussex, England, offers unprecedented insights into the life of a poorly understood extinct human species, according to new UCL research. The findings of a meticulous study led by UCL Institute of Archaeology are detailed in a ground-breaking new book ‘The Horse Butchery Site’, published by UCL Archaeology South-East’s ‘Spoilheap Publications’. The study pieces together the activities and movements of a group of early humans as they made tools, including the oldest bone tools documented in Europe, and extensively butchered a large horse 480,000 years ago. Project lead, Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Institute of Archaeology) is our guest today.LinksThe Horse Butchery Site: a high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. SpoilHeap Monograph 23. Authored by Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt and Mark Roberts.Contact Chris Webster [email protected] Affiliates Wildnote TeePublic Timeular Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.
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A half-a-million-year-old internationally significant archaeological site in Sussex, England, offers unprecedented insights into the life of a poorly understood extinct human species, according to new UCL research. The findings of a meticulous study led by UCL Institute of Archaeology are detailed in a ground-breaking new book 'The Horse Butchery Site', published by UCL Archaeology South-East's 'Spoilheap Publications'. The study pieces together the activities and movements of a group of early humans as they made tools, including the oldest bone tools documented in Europe, and extensively butchered a large horse 480,000 years ago. Project lead, Dr Matthew Pope (UCL Institute of Archaeology) is our guest today. Links * The Horse Butchery Site: a high resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK. SpoilHeap Monograph 23. Authored by Matt Pope, Simon Parfitt and Mark Roberts. [https://onlinestore.ucl.ac.uk/product-catalogue/faculty-of-social-historical-sciences-c03/archaeology-south-east-f31/f31-the-horse-butchery-site] Contact * Chris Webster * [email protected] Affiliates * Wildnote [http://www.wildnoteapp.com/] * TeePublic [https://www.teepublic.com/?ref_id=5724&ref_type=aff] * Timeular [https://timeular.com/ref/chriswebster/] Find this show on the educational podcast app, Lyceum.fm! [http://lyceum.fm/]
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