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

Like the long orbital cycle of Halley's Comet, the Stonehenge Tunnel debate moves towards Aphelion. In 10 years time momentum will build towards plans for a new tunnel. It's possible the trilithons were placed so this cycle could be accurately predicted. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

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

I'm at Queen Mary and Westfield today for the 5th Pathways to Ancient Britain workshop. Presenting on our research on Ice Age Jersey the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in La Mancheland. #IceAgeIsland 🦣🏺

PSA for anyone experiencing adverse weather. I am not in Jersey right now.

The Kabua 1 Skull: What a Long-Neglected Kenyan Fossil Says About Late Pleistocene Human Diversity. Dated to at least 64,000 years old, the Kabua 1 cranium is mostly Homo sapiens and partly something harder to place anthropology.net/p/the-kabua-1-…

Ancient DNA reveals a hidden Neanderthal group frozen in time | ScienceDaily sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/…

'It adds to the evidence from across Britain for the Clactonian (core & flake) & Acheulean (handaxes) as successive industries of the Hoxnian Interglacial (MIS 11c)' New evidence for the Clactonian-Acheulean succession during MIS 11 from Devereux's Pit, Suffolk sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Richard Wrangham, anthropologist: ‘Humans domesticated ourselves by defeating our alpha male ancestors’ english.elpais.com/science-tech/2… via @elpaisinenglish

This Exceptionally Preserved Neanderthal Appears To Have Been Buried On Purpose In France 40,000 Years Ago iflscience.com/this-exception…

Applications are now open to join the 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

Great to see our paper on ancient dogs published yesterday! And all credit to Simon Parfitt, who recognised there were dogs at Gough's Cave long before there was any aDNA evidence of it...

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…