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J. Desmond Clark
J. Desmond Clark
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13io,qraphicat Memoirs VOLUME 83
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not embarrass myself totally. Clark responclecl quickly with a packet of reprints en cl a long list of reaclings that began my African education.
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Clark was remarkably well informal about the archaeology en cl Pleistocene geology of almost every part of Africa, mostly because throughout his life he fount! opportunities to clo fielcl work in a wicle variety of areas en cl over the whole chronological range of human experience in Africa, from the earliest human artifacts to an occasional ethnographic study of modern tribal groups.
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history for two years, then archaeology en cl anthropology uncler Miles Burkitt, who awakened in him an interest in artifacts en cl the history of the cliscipline, en c! Grahame Clark, who taught him the importance of the paleoenvironment to archaeology, primarily how changes in the environment might influence human behavior.
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Their friendship soon blossomecI, en cl they became engaged cluring his final year. Shortly after his arrival in Livingstone, Clark sought en c!
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recorclecl a sequence of StilIbay, Rhoclesian Wilton, en cl Iron Age seasonal occupations in those caves. From 1941 to 1946 Clark was in the British army, serving initially as a sergeant in the Seventh East African Fielcl Ambulance Corps in Ethiopia, Madagascar, and Somalia.
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later as a civil affairs officer, Clark also managed to clo some archaeology, recording sites en cl even performing limitecl excavations.
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in African prehistory archaeologists, Quaternary geologists, en cl paleontologists who came from 26 countries en cl from all parts of Africa en c! abroad.
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Stimulatecl by the papers en cl the collections he saw while at the congress, Clark proposer! a correlation of prehistoric cultures north en cl south of the Sahara that was publishecl in the South African Archaeological Bulletin (1954~.
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Shortly after Clark arrivecl in Berkeley in 1961 he en cl his colleagues in the Department of Anthropology began the clevelopment of a research en c! graduate training program in African prehistory and related disciplines that soon became the most clistinguishecl center in the worIcl for such studies.
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Then in 1981 en cl 1982 he shifted to the Afar MicicIle Awash Valley where he workocl in the rich Lower and MicicIle Paleolithic localities in that area. Unfortunately only one paper based on this work was published, in part because the research was unfinished.
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His first was in 1960 when he became a commander of the Order of the British Empire. This was followocl in 1967 by the Commancleur cle I'Orcire National cle Senegal, the Huxley Mecial from the Royal Anthropological Institute, Lonclon, in 1974, en cl in 1985 the GoIcl Mecial of the Society of Antiquaries in Lonclon.
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a movie on flaking stone artifacts, en cl to assist with ciata analysis for volume III of The Kalambo Falls Prehistoric Site) Possibly one of Desmoncl's most treasurer!
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London: Cambridge University Press. A provisional correlation of prehistoric cultures north and south of the Sahara.
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Volume II. London: Cambridge University Press.
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