Grahame Clark (1907–1995)
Author of World Prehistory: In New Perspective
About the Author
Disambiguation Notice:
John Grahame Douglas Clark is also published under the name Grahame Clark.
Series
Works by Grahame Clark
Algemene prehistorie 4 copies
Arqueologia e Sociedade - Reconstituição do passado pré-histórico (Tradução M. Isabel Alarcão) (1980) 2 copies
A pré-história 1 copy
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1951: Part 2 — Editor — 1 copy
Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society for 1951: Part 1 — Editor — 1 copy
Mñniskans l̃dsta historia 1 copy
Prehistoria universal 1 copy
The Stone Age 1 copy
Associated Works
The Dawn of Civilization: The First World Survey of Human Cultures in Early Times (1961) — Contributor — 127 copies, 2 reviews
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Legal name
- Clark, John Grahame Douglas
- Birthdate
- 1907-07-28
- Date of death
- 1995-09-12
- Gender
- male
- Education
- Marlborough College
Peterhouse, Cambridge - Occupations
- archaeologist
- Organizations
- Fenland Research Committee
Royal Air Force
University of Cambridge (Department of Archaeology) - Awards and honors
- The Erasmus Prize for Prehistory (1990)
Order of the British Empire (Knight Commander)
British Academy (Fellow)
Viking Fund Medal - Short biography
- "John Grahame Douglas Clark (1907- 1995) was educated at Marlborough College and Peterhouse Cambridge, where he was first a research student and subsequently assistent lecturer in archaeology from 1930-46. During World War II he served as a squadron leader in the RAF with a special commission in Air Intelligence and Air History. After the war he became a university lecturer in Archaeology and in 1952 he was appointed as the Disney Professor of Archaeology and Ethnology, which post he held until 1974. From 1973 until 1980 he was Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge." (source: http://www.erasmusprize.org/eng/index...)
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- Bromley, Kent, England, UK
- Places of residence
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Place of death
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Disambiguation notice
- John Grahame Douglas Clark is also published under the name Grahame Clark.
- Associated Place (for map)
- England, UK
Members
Reviews
Prehistoric Societies takes us from the earliest evidence of human culture – the rock art and flint tools of the stone age hunter-gatherers, right through to the development of pottery, towns, and the bronze and iron ages and development of agriculture, cities, and complex civilisation that come to resemble more closesly our own.
This is very much a book written from an archaeological perspective, as archaological evidence is almost the only thing that can tell us anything about how show more prehistoric people lived, how their economies changed through the ages, what their beliefs might have been, what sort of buildings they probably lived in, and what they wore and ate.
This is quite a detailed book stretching to around 330 pages and plenty of illustrations. This length is appropriate given the vastness of the time periods it covers – hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago when the first stone tools were being made by non-human hominids, right up to the compartively recent pre-historic past of a few thousand BC.
This is a relatively readable book, and a fairly good introduction to Prehistory, though it doesn't as carefully avoid using non-specialist terms, or at least go to the same lengths to explain them, as many popular accounts do. Also, having been written over 50 years ago, it is somewhat out of date in that a lot of new discoveries have been made since then. For example, the oldest known cultures have been discovered further into the past now, and more evidence has been gathered using new techniques such as genetics, which have provided us with a much improved understanding of the past and how and where it was populated with different varieties of extinct anthropoids. This being said, the vast majority of Prehistory, as this book says, is lost forever to human knowledge, as only certain types of material traces are left to survive the huge timescales involved. For this reason, the job of the archaeologist, and the glimpses we see of these long distant cultures are made even more intriguing. show less
This is very much a book written from an archaeological perspective, as archaological evidence is almost the only thing that can tell us anything about how show more prehistoric people lived, how their economies changed through the ages, what their beliefs might have been, what sort of buildings they probably lived in, and what they wore and ate.
This is quite a detailed book stretching to around 330 pages and plenty of illustrations. This length is appropriate given the vastness of the time periods it covers – hundreds of thousands or even millions of years ago when the first stone tools were being made by non-human hominids, right up to the compartively recent pre-historic past of a few thousand BC.
This is a relatively readable book, and a fairly good introduction to Prehistory, though it doesn't as carefully avoid using non-specialist terms, or at least go to the same lengths to explain them, as many popular accounts do. Also, having been written over 50 years ago, it is somewhat out of date in that a lot of new discoveries have been made since then. For example, the oldest known cultures have been discovered further into the past now, and more evidence has been gathered using new techniques such as genetics, which have provided us with a much improved understanding of the past and how and where it was populated with different varieties of extinct anthropoids. This being said, the vast majority of Prehistory, as this book says, is lost forever to human knowledge, as only certain types of material traces are left to survive the huge timescales involved. For this reason, the job of the archaeologist, and the glimpses we see of these long distant cultures are made even more intriguing. show less
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