Present concerns? 鈥淗aving spent all my life researching the Neolithic and Bronze Age of Britain (4000 to 1000 BC), I decided at the turn of the millennium to broaden my horizons.鈥� He has immense fun teasing specialists of other periods, he says. 鈥淎rchaeology is far too important to be taken too seriously.鈥� He is reading about 鈥渢he biggest upsetter of them all鈥� in Darwin: The life of a tormented evolutionist by Adrian Desmond and James Moore (Penguin, 1991). Darwin was 鈥渁n astounding genius whose many achievements simply leave one gasping. As an archaeologist his work on earthworms affects everything I do.鈥�
When not in a trench? You鈥檒l find him in the lambing pens. He and his wife Maisie Taylor have a flock of 120 pure-bred Lleyns. He admires the early animal breeders and is reading Pat Stanley鈥檚 Robert Bakewell and the Longhorn Breed of Cattle (Farming Press, 1995).
You鈥檒l find Pryor鈥檚 鈥渁ll-time top 10鈥� books in his book Britain BC (Harper Perennial, 2004).
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