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Grahame Clark : An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist

by: Fagan, B.

Price: 45,00 EURO

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Category: Prehistory
Code: 8763
ISBN-13: 9780813341132 / 978-0-8133-4113-2
ISBN-10: 0813341132 / 0-8133-4113-2
Publisher: Westview Press
Publication Date: 2001
Publication Place: Colorado
Binding: Paper
Pages: 304
Book Condition: Very good

Grahame Clark : an intellectual biography of an archaeologist

Author:Brian M. Fagan

Summary:"To chronicle the intellectual life of Grahame Clark (1907-1995) is to participate in the history of the discipline of archaeology, which Clark - almost single-handedly at first - transformed from an antiquarian pastime based largely on artifact classification into a sophisticated study of the human past based on collaborations among scientists from many disciplines. Delving into Clark's major publications and personal archives, and drawing on dozens of interviews with Clark's former colleagues and students, noted archaeology writer Brian Fagan, himself a former student of Clark's at Cambridge University, assesses Clark's pioneering efforts in economic and environmental prehistory. To accurately study the man, Brian Fagan focuses not just on Clark's published works; he also examines Clark's personal archives and draws on dozens of interviews with Clark's colleagues and students."


Contents:
A passionate connoisseur of flints. Clark's early life and school days, when he developed a passionate interest in archaeology ; he studies history and archaeology as a Cambridge undergraduate
The Mesolithic Age in Britain. Graduate career at Cambridge ; the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge in the 1920s and 1930s ; a dissertation on the Mesolithic of Britain ; The Mesolithic Age in Britain
The Fenland Research Committee. The Leman and Ower discovery and its consequences ; Clark's seminal work with the Fenland Research Committee ; Peacock's Farm ; The Prehistoric Society of East Anglia becomes the Prehistoric Society
The Mesolithic settlement of Northern Europe. The travels that led to the writing of The Mesolithic settlement of Northern Europe ; analysis of The Mesolithic settlement ; reviews and reactions
Archaeology and society. Teaching at Cambridge ; marriage ; analysis of Archaeology and society
The war years. World War II brings Clark into aerial photographic intelligence ; time to reflect ; interest kindled in modern art ; conference on The Future of Archaeology ; first papers on ancient subsistence
The economic basis. Clark's Peterhouse fellowship and the influence of economic historian Michael Postan ; the 1949 Munro lectures that formed the basis for Prehistoric Europe : the economic basis, which is analyzed
Star Carr. Star Carr ; excavations, analysis, and interpretation of the site, and the impact of the monograph ; later research at the settlement ; its importance to the development of ecological and subsistence archaeology
Disney professor. The Disney chair ; the 1953 Reckitt Lecture as a statement of Clark's approach to archaeology ; teaching world prehistory at Cambridge ; excavations at Hurst Fen and the Mildenhall Neolithic
World prehistory. Encouraging young archaeologists to work overseas ; the writing of World prehistory ; travels to Australia and New Zealand ; analysis of the book and its impact
Travels of a prehistorian. The Early Agriculture Project ; aspects of prehistory ; retirement from the Disney ; master of Peterhouse ; The earlier Stone Age settlement of Scandinavia ; Mesolithic prelude ; The identity of man ; Clark's intellectual interests after retirement
Last years. Man, space, and time ; the Erasmus Prize, knighthood, the culmination of a lifetime's work ; "Man the spiritual primate" ; final days
Retrospect. An assessment of Grahame Clark's intellectual contributions and significance to archaeology


xix, 304 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

 
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Grahame Clark : An Intellectual Biography of an Archaeologist

by: Fagan, B.

  • ISBN-13: 9780813341132 / 978-0-8133-4113-2
  • ISBN-03: 0813341132 / 0-8133-4113-2
  • Westview Press, Colorado, 2001

Price: 45,00 EURO

1 copy in stock