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1. Early life and going to see The Agamemnon | 544 | 02:29 | |
2. St Albans School and developing an interest in archaeology | 202 | 03:11 | |
3. Excavating at Canterbury: learning basic skills | 148 | 02:56 | |
4. Our first trip to the continent | 115 | 01:54 | |
5. Visiting Lascaux | 170 | 01:21 | |
6. A school trip to America | 105 | 02:38 | |
7. Studying science and getting into Cambridge | 141 | 02:02 | |
8. Classes at school and a trip to Paris | 98 | 04:39 | |
9. National service | 117 | 03:59 | |
10. Changing subjects at Cambridge | 157 | 03:03 |
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: Visiting Lascaux
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: 1 minute, 21 seconds
Date story recorded: January 2008
Date story went live: 14 May 2009