appeared on television. He was the host, often with Sir Mortimer Wheeler as a guest, of the game show Animal, Vegetable, Mineral?. He was named Television Personality of the Year in 1955. In 1981, he appeared as the guest on Desert Island Discs. He edited numerous popular studies of archaeological sites and cultures. He died in Cambridge and the McDonald Institute, University of Cambridge, have named the Glyn Daniel Laboratory for Archaeogenetics in his memory. Academic works The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France (1960), The Megalith Builders of Western Europe (1963), 150 Years of Archaeology (1976), and a number of articles in archaeological journals. His most accessible work for the general public is The Idea of Prehistory (1962), later updated in collaboration with Colin Renfrew, Edinburgh University Press, 1988. Detective fiction Daniel published two detective fiction novels. The Cambridge Murders (1945) was published under the pseudonym Dilwyn Rees, and later re-published in 1965 by Penguin Books under his own name. Welcome Death was published under his own name in 1954. The detective in both novels is Sir Richard Cherrington, an eminent but slightly eccentric archaeologist who is the Vice-President of Fisher College. An obituary of Daniel by Norman Hammond in American Antiquity says that Sir Richard was "transparently based on Mortimer Wheeler". References Bibliography Daniel, Glyn. Some Small Harvest: The Memoirs of Glyn Daniel. London: Thames & Hudson, 1986. External links "Antiquaries in Wales", Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales 1914 births 1986 deaths Welsh archaeologists Alumni of Cardiff University Disney Professors of Archaeology Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge Fellows of St John's College, Cambridge Welsh scientists People from Barry, Vale of Glamorgan Prehistorians 20th-century Welsh scientists 20th-century Welsh writers People from Lampeter Fellows of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Presidents of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Fellows of the British Academy