ancient matters. Archaeological knowledge depends also on the attitudes and values of the inquirer; the advances in the developing history of archaeology came from new opportunities that resulted from changing frames of ideas as well as from new field discoveries.

In 1952, Daniel participated in an archaeological quiz show on British (BBC) television, Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? and soon became its chairman. For each show, three experts (of whom sir mortimer wheeler was the regular performer with the best style and panache) would examine mystery objects from a museum collection and try to identify just what they were and where they came from. The program was an unprecedented success in the “strange and heady days” of early British television, and Daniel was voted “Television Personality of the Year” in 1955. Looking now at the few minutes of black-and-white film that survive, it is not easy to see why the program caught the public imagination so. Rather than allowing himself to be pulled further into the television world, Daniel stayed with archaeology and later was much involved in the guidance of the long-running BBC archaeology series Chronicle.

In 1955, Daniel began to edit a new series of books for Thames and Hudson, Ancient People and Places, which ran to over 100 volumes, and in 1957, he succeeded o. g. s. crawford as editor of the journal antiquity. As a journal and book editor, knowledgeable in the ways of television and with a lively sense of what was new and exciting, Daniel had great importance (not always visible) from the 1950s onward; in the modern phrase, he was a great “networker.” Knowing everyone, always interested in the gossip as to who had found what and said what, he had an influential hand in many useful innovations, and much was done, written, and published that might not have occurred without his cheery and steel-centered encouragement. A long series of his students went on from St. John’s to successful careers in archaeology; Glyn was especially proud of 1962 when Barry Cunliffe, Colin Renfrew, and two other members of St. John’s all got first-class degrees. Cambridge recognized Daniel’s diverse service, in his college as well as in the university, and that his work was much broader than the conventional research of a narrow academic career by electing him Disney Professor of Archaeology in 1974, in succession to sir grahame clark. When Daniel retired in 1981, he was succeeded by his student Lord Renfrew.

Daniel published an excellent fat autobiography, Some Small Harvest, which is full of lively and telling stories, in 1986, the year of his retirement after thirty years of editing Antiquity and the year of his death. He was survived by his wife, Ruth, production editor for Antiquity and the less public partner in a celebrated Cambridge double act for the forty years since their marriage in 1946.

Christopher Chippindale

References

Daniel, Glyn E. 1986. Some Small Harvest: The Memoirs of Glyn Daniel. London: Thames and Hudson.

Dart, Raymond Arthur

(1893–1988)

Born near Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, Dart graduated from the University of Queensland in 1913 with a science degree. He studied medicine at the University of Sydney and after completing his master’s degree in anatomy, and his medical degree in 1917, joined the Australian Medical Corps in France and England from 1918 to 1919. After the war he worked with sir grafton elliot smith, demonstrating anatomy at University College London, and then in 1920 won a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to the United States. He first studied at the University of Cincinnati but then spent most of his time in the anatomy department at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1922 Dart became professor of anatomy and dean of the medical school at the University of Witwatersrand in south africa, and he built up these institutions until 1943, creating the Raymond Dart Collection of Human Skeletons while teaching there. He retired in 1958 but continued to work as an honorary professorial research fellow at the Bernard Price Institute for Palaeontological Research in Witwatersrand for six months of the year and as professor at the Avery Postgraduate Institute in Philadelphia, U.S.A., for the other six months, until the age of ninety-three. The Institute