Matthew Pope, researcher at the Institute of Archeology of the University of London and regular presence of the BBC documentary series "Digging for Britain", is the guest of two lectures promoted by the Algarve Archaeological Association, on the 7th of February, in São Brás de Alportel and in Lagoon.
The coming of the British archaeologist to the Algarve it has to do with the discovery, last year, of traces of human occupation from the Middle Paleolithic, more than 40 years ago, attributable to Neanderthal Man, in a cave along the Boina stream (a tributary of the Arade), when the Companheira WWTP works began, such as the Sul Informação then reported it firsthand.
The first lecture is scheduled for 14:30 pm, at the Museu do Trajo de São Brás de Alportel, followed by a new intervention by Matt Pope, at the Convento de São José, in Lagoa, at 17:45 pm. Both lectures are in English.
Matt Pope has led archaeological digs in southern Britain and the Anglo-Norman islands (notably Jersey) for the past decade and a half. Since 2009, it has been exploring parts of the English Channel, between the south of England and the north of France, where there are records of occupation by Neanderthals for 200 years.
The researcher has been trying to understand how the first humans organized their survival strategy, during the Ice Age, and how they developed hunting tools.
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