Brilliant, well done! Interesting and educational. I noticed a lot of pink coloured properties when I visited a few years ago and in this video. What’s the reason for this? Thanks.
Thank you! Many of our churches, farmhouses and public buildings of a certain vintage are built using granite from the local quarry at Mont Madot, which is known for its pink hue so that may be what you're thinking about. Hope that answers your question!
Great rhythm and very informative, thanks! I visited Jersey a few months ago and went to Mont Orgueil and La Hougue Bie, but I didn't know about the caves of Saint-Brélade, that's for next time.
That's an interesting question but the answer is more complicated. Jersey and the rest of the Channel Islands wouldn't be islands until roughly 6000 years ago. When we're thinking of that timeframe and the 240,000+ years before before that point, it means we have to stop thinking about it as an island. Jersey was rather a borderless promontory on the lands of what would EVENTUALLY flood and become the Channel, a landscape archaeologists like Dr Matt Pope propose we call La Manche. Jersey's Neanderthals were moving nomadically within that landscape in seasonal hunting patterns. The same can be said of those Mesolithic Hunters who camped at Les Varines 18-15,000 years ago. It's not til the advent of farming, brought up the rivers of Europe by boatloads of Neolithic peoples that anyone had a reason to settle here for good. That said, I like to imagine that at least some of those Neanderthals and the early hybrid Homo-Sapiens we know they interbred with were born in the safety of the cave at La Cotte. But what about their families? In what sense were they native? In what strange landscape did the first proto-Jerseyperson take their first steps?
Beautifully crafted JH! Awesome production work too...the depiction of the triangular slave trade on the beach was really effective and some lovely cinematic drone work! 🇯🇪 🔥
