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11. Changing subjects at Cambridge (Part 2) | 86 | 04:39 | |
12. Life as an undergraduate in Cambridge in the 1960s | 103 | 04:55 | |
13. Teachers at Cambridge | 130 | 08:47 | |
14. Choosing a research topic | 93 | 04:09 | |
15. Why I chose the Cyclades as a research subject | 120 | 05:34 | |
16. Developing an interest in art | 75 | 02:41 | |
17. A trip to Crete with Squire Hutchinson | 89 | 04:12 | |
18. Cycladic research at the British School in Greece | 62 | 03:15 | |
19. Gordon Childe | 244 | 02:18 | |
20. Developing my theory on Cycladic cultures and radiocarbon dating | 143 | 04:33 |
Baron Renfrew of Kaimsthorn is a British archaeologist known for his work on the dispersal of the Proto-Indo-Europeans and the prehistory of PIE languages. He has been Disney Professor of Archaeology at Cambridge as well as Master of Jesus College and Director of the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
Title: Gordon Childe
Listeners: Paul Bahn
Paul Bahn studied archaeology at Cambridge where he did his doctoral thesis on the prehistory of the French Pyrenees. He is now Britain's foremost specialist on Ice Age art and on Easter Island, and led the team which discovered Britain's first Ice Age cave art at Creswell Crags, Nottinghamshire, in 2003. He has authored and edited numerous books, including Journey Through the Ice Age, The Enigmas of Easter Island, Mammoths, The Cambridge Illustrated History of Prehistoric Art, and, with Colin Renfrew, Archaeology: Theories, Methods and Practice which was published in its 5th edition in 2008.
Duration: 2 minutes, 18 seconds
Date story recorded: January 2008
Date story went live: 14 May 2009