John Wymer: One of Britain’s foremost archaeologists (Obituary)
JOHN WYMER was one of Britain’s foremost archaeologists. In the course of a lifetime devoted to seeking out the earliest traces of human beings, he made many significant discoveries in Britain and abroad.
John James Wymer was born in 1928 and brought up in southwest London, near Kew Gardens. He was introduced to the quest for ancient flint implements by his parents whom he accompanied on many visits to nearby gravel pits where flint implements and the bones of extinct animals were to be found.
He began his career as a teacher. However, at the age of 27, while working at Swanscombe in Kent, he found part of the skull of a fossil hominid — it turned out to be the oldest human cranium from Britain — and he soon turned to archaeology full-time. In 1956 he was appointed to the staff of Reading Museum, from where he continued his search for Palaeolithic implements in the quaternary sediments of the River Thames.
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John James Wymer was born in 1928 and brought up in southwest London, near Kew Gardens. He was introduced to the quest for ancient flint implements by his parents whom he accompanied on many visits to nearby gravel pits where flint implements and the bones of extinct animals were to be found.
He began his career as a teacher. However, at the age of 27, while working at Swanscombe in Kent, he found part of the skull of a fossil hominid — it turned out to be the oldest human cranium from Britain — and he soon turned to archaeology full-time. In 1956 he was appointed to the staff of Reading Museum, from where he continued his search for Palaeolithic implements in the quaternary sediments of the River Thames.