The Interview: Exploring Jersey's lesser-known Neanderthal cave

Despite being less well-known than its St. Brelade counterpart,  La Cotte à la Chèvre is one of the most extraordinary archaeological sites in Jersey, throwing up over 16,000 artefacts since it was first excavated in 1881. 

A small cave near Grosnez where people may have lived and hunted up to 250,000 years ago, it is one of the earliest inhabited spots in the Channel Islands and one of the last places Neanderthals could have lived. 

In this podcast, Charlie Flynn speaks to Dr Josie Mills, an archaeologist who has been working on sites in Jersey since 2010 and who is working at the Sir Francis Cook Gallery to catalogue all the finds from this incredible site.

They discuss what was found at  La Cotte à la Chèvre, what it was and what our ancestors may have used it for, and what the site can tell us about Jersey’s pre-history...