Daryll Forde

He attended the local county school in Tottenham, then went on to read geography at University College London (UCL).

It also reveals the fact that the ships in which the great sea-going exploits were achieved, whether in the Mediterranean and Atlantic, the Red or the Erythraean Sea, or the Pacific, were mainly vessels such as were elaborated in the Ancient East and inspired by Egyptian models.

Egypt provided much of the cultural cargo of these Ancient Mariners, as well as their ships and their knowledge of seamanship.Smith and Forde also collaborated on the excavation of a Bronze Age tumulus near Dunstable.

[1] After receiving his doctorate, Forde won a Commonwealth Fellowship to work with the American anthropologists Alfred Kroeber and Robert Lowie at the University of California, Berkeley.

[2] Both Kroeber and Lowie were students of Franz Boas, making Berkeley an influential early centre of what became known as Boasian anthropology.

In 1930, when still only 28 years old, Daryll Forde was appointed Gregynog Professor of Geography and Anthropology at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.