Grahame Clark
British archaeologist and prehistorian (1907-1995) · United Kingdom · On the map · Academics · Died at 88
Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark, who often published as J. G. D. Clark, was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of Mesolithic Europe and palaeoeconomics.
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Clark gained his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Peterhouse, Cambridge.
Clark learned to excavate while assisting the project at the Trundle, an Iron Age hillfort in Sussex.
In 1936, Clark was guided around the Danebirke by German archaeologists
Mesolithic barbed spear points found at Star Carr
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During the 1960s, Clark spent increasing time visiting archaeological sites across the world, including Çatalhöyük in Turkey
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He spent most of his career working at the University of Cambridge, where he was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology from 1952 to 1974 and Master of Peterhouse from 1973 to 1980.
