News & Events
Britt Baillie-Warren features in TV documentary 'Viking Apocalypse'
Jenny French awarded 3-year JRF
PhD STUDENTSHIP IN Cereal Flowering time genetics
CAU's Bronze Age boats in Current Archaeology
New book 'The Bella' by Ex-Cambridge postdoc Benjamin Morris
McDonald Field Archaeologist 2011/2012 appointed
McDonald articles top the charts
Candidates sought for Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowships 2012
Applications are invited for grants from the DM McDonald Grants and Awards Fund
History
The McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research in the University of Cambridge was established in 1990 through a generous benefaction from the late Dr D M McDonald. The benefaction enabled the University to construct and maintain purpose-built premises for the Institute which include research rooms and laboratories, together with archive space and a seminar room.
Dr. Daniel McClean McDonald, born in Fort William, Scotland, in 1905, had degrees in Engineering (Glasgow) and Medicine (Birmingham). He was founder and Chairman of the BSR Group, manufacturers of record turntables and record changers. He died in his adoptive home, the Isle of Man, in February 1991.
The founding director of the Institute was Professor Colin Renfrew - Lord Renfrew of Kaimsthorn, formerly Disney Professor of Archaeology in the Department of Archaeology.
Background to the McDonald Institute Triskeles
Dr McDonald's choice of emblem for the Institute was influenced by the symbol of the Isle of Man, his adopted home. The winged feet of the Triskeles are those of Hermes, and were taken from a 5th century Syracusan coin.
