Career Glyn Daniel

glyn daniel @ tinkinswood chambered tomb in 1963 talking cambridge university students

after war daniel returned cambridge resume academic life. in years 1954-56 presented bbc archaeology programme buried treasure, featured guests such kathleen kenyon, sir mortimer wheeler, , actress noelle middleton. became disney professor of archaeology in 1974. 1958 1985, editor of academic journal antiquity. main subject of study neolithic chamber tombs, although wrote books on history of archaeology , archaeological thought.

daniel appeared on television. host, sir mortimer wheeler guest, of game show animal, vegetable, mineral?. named television personality of year in 1955. in 1981 appeared guest on desert island discs. edited numerous popular studies of archaeological sites , cultures.

the mcdonald institute, university of cambridge, have named glyn daniel laboratory archaeogenetics in memory.