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Investing in our rich past
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For an Island of such limited size, there is amazing prehistorical and historical strength in depth at a plethora of sites and in the extensive collections of our museums.
An aeon before tourism or low-tax status assumed importance, Jersey attracted not only successive waves of human visitors, many of whom stayed, but also, in the very depths of the past, our Neanderthal relatives.
They hunted creatures such as woolly rhinoceros and left the evidence of their success at La Cotte de St Brelade. Although this rock chasm is, quite literally, only a stone hand-axe throw from a popular bathing beach, it is seen by archaeologists as one of the world’s foremost Old Stone Age locations.
Read the rest of Wednesday’s leader in the JEP
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