Matt Pope is Associate Professor in Palaeolithic archaeology at the University College London Institute of Archaeology. He is currently leading on excavations at the Neanderthal site of La Cotte de St Brelade, Jersey, as well as further high-profile Palaeolithic excavations in Southern Britain and the Channel Islands. He is the author of, amongst other publications, The Horse Butchery Site: A high-resolution record of Lower Palaeolithic hominin behaviour at Boxgrove, UK (with Simon Parfitt and Mark Roberts, 2020) and co-editor of Crossing the Human Threshold Dynamic Transformation and Persistent Places During the Late Middle Pleistocene (with John McNabb and Clive Gamble, 2017, 2019).