Dr Matt Pope

Applications are now open to join our 2026 UCL Master's programme in human evolution. Covering the Palaeolithic, Palaeoanthropology & other key disciplines, the course is designed to equip you for a career in the deep human past. #PaPa 🦣📷tinyurl.com/5duy6twh

Welcoming the Equinox light in at La Hougue Bie. A deliberate and powerful Neolithic alignment that illuminates the burial chamber just twice a year. Very lucky to be invited to witness this prehistoric spectacle. 🇯🇪🏺@SocieteJersiaise @JerseyHeritage

Are you ready to delve into 4 billion years of your family history? Join me in November 2026 for my live show - Cell to Civilisation. Dates and tickets coming soon...

For #MotheringSunday and #StandingStoneSunday La Gran' Mère de Chimquiere (Translation: The Grandmother of the Cemetery)Late Neolithic? statue Menhir, possibly reworked in the Gallo-roman period. 1.65m high and now standing guard at the entrance to St Martin's Church. Guernsey.🏺

@Kateodonnell43 @ucl Thats so good to hear Kate!

@MatthewPope @ucl Fantastic MSc, absolutely loved it and my time at UCL ❤️

This is our brilliant (and growing) MSc Palaeoanthropology and Palaeolithic Archaeology teaching team. Come to @ucl.ac.uk and study with these experts in human evolution, Palaeolithic archaeology and Quaternary science. 🏺🦣🧪🧬🦴 tinyurl.com/yc22vea3

@WarrOnWords @ucl Probably a dissensus!

@MatthewPope @ucl What’s the collective name for a collection of Professors? 😉

@AmandaChadburn We are so lucky to live alongside such marvels

Fantastic photo.

Here I witter on about Rapa Nui, the Routledges, Heyerdahl and other topics from my book, all but nonstop for an hour (I at least find these things endlessly fascinating!) youtube.com/watch?v=KRHslp…

Revisiting Creswell Crags: applying digital methods to reassess the northernmost examples of Upper Palaeolithic cave art tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

OBJECT OF THE WEEK: Kents Cavern Skull On display in our Holden gallery, this skull belonging to a woman aged 25 years was discovered in Kents Cavern and is believed to be about 5,000 years old. There have been three seperate species of human that have been discovered there.

@TheRealSnuggler I really enjoyed it, and your local area is actually quite a stand out Ice Age landscape!

@MatthewPope Thanks so much for coming to speak to our group tonight, we really enjoyed your talk. I was checking the attendees and they were rapt! We appreciated you bringing mention of our local area into the talk, excellent! 👏👏👏

Heading home after giving a talk on Ice Age archaeology in London. Lots of interest and stories of local discoveries shared and great to have some professional geoarchaeologists in the audience 🏺🦣

Homo sapiens could have hunted with bow and arrow from the onset of the early Upper Palaeolithic in Eurasia: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

Another Palaeolithic site has fallen through the planning & protection net & has been green-lit for development. 3 confirmed in 3 years, with 2 others I'm investigating. The failure to schedule Palaeolithic sites & erosion of planning protections are to blame. 🚨🦣🏺

Our next talk from the monthly programme……

It was totally remiss of me not to mention the Isle of Man, which showed amazing leadership on this issue

Jersey has joined Ireland, Scotland and Wales (and most of Europe) in showing up how shockingly irresponsible and enabling of destruction of the record England's heritage protection laws are.

“Our role at Jersey Heritage is to facilitate the legal obligation to report finds and we will have an easy-to-use online system ready for the public to use once the legislation comes into force.”

Jersey Heritage to launch online ‘finds’ system after ‘treasure law’ passed dlvr.it/TRDJQ3