Reindeer
Brett Westwood learns that there is a lot more to our relationship with reindeer than Rudolph.
Reindeer have been entwined with the lives of people living in the most northerly parts of the world for thousands of years, following the herds north as the Arctic ice retreated. Karen Anette Anti from a long line of Sami herds-people and Tilly Smith with her herd of reindeer in the Scottish Highlands, teach Brett Westwood that there's a lot more to reindeer than Rudolph. In a programme also featuring reindeer expert Dr. Nicholas Tyler, Palaeolithic archaeologists Dr. Felix Riede and Dr George Nash.
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Archive producer Andrew Dawes for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Audio Bristol
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How Santa got his reindeer
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Tilly Smith
Dr Felix Riede
He has written widely about reindeer-hunting communities and studies the first people to follow the reindeer from Southern Europe to the North towards the end of the last glacial period, around 15,000 years ago.
Dr George Nash
He has been a professional archaeologist for the past 23 years and has undertaken extensive fieldwork on prehistoric rock-art and mobility art in Chile, Denmark, Indonesia, Malaysia, Norway, Sardinia, Spain and Sweden. Between 1994 and 1997 he directed excavations at the La Hougue Bie passage grave on Jersey, one of Europe’s largest Neolithic monuments and recently he has directed preliminary excavations at Westminster Hall, London.
Dr Nicholas Tyler
Nicholas Tyler is a biologist at the Arctic University of Norway, andΒ has studied wild reindeer in Svalbard and semi-domesticated reindeer on mainland Norway since 1979.Β He is interested in physiological adaptation to Arctic environment and in the processes that govern the ways in which individuals and populations respond to both natural and anthropogenic environmental change. <?xml:namespace prefix = "o" ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
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