World Prehistory : Studies in Memory of Grahame Clark

by Coles, John M.; Bewley, Robert; Mellars, Paul; Prehistoric Society (London, England); British Academy

• ISBN13: 9780197261965
• ISBN10: 0197261965
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-05-01
• Publisher: David Brown Book Co

Summary

This edited book details some of the new developments in the major fields of interest of the late Grahame Clark, one of the foremost figures in prehistoric archaeology. The perspective is global, with studies from Australia, on American archaeology, South-east Asia, Scandinavia, Northern Europe, Southern France, and Turkey.

Table of Contents

List of Plates	vii
Notes on Contributors	viii
Preface	xii
Grahame Clark and World Prehistory: A Personal Perspective	1	(10)
J. Desmond Clark
`Is Homo Defined by Culture?'	11	(14)
Bernard Wood
Mark Collard
Western Cape Landscapes	25	(12)
John Parkington
Dating the Human Colonization of Australia: Radiocarbon and Luminescence Revolutions	37	(30)
Rhys Jones
Grahame Clark and American Archaeology	67	(8)
Brian Fagan
Recent Advances in the Prehistory of South-east Asia	75	(12)
C.F.W. Higham
Settlement and Palaeoecology in the Scandinavian Mesolithic	87	(20)
Lars Larsson
Shippea Hill and after: Wetlands in North European Prehistory and the Case of the Donken	107	(18)
Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans
Economic Prehistory in Southern Scandinavia	125	(36)
Peter Rowley-Conwy
Twenty Thousand Years of Palaeolithic Cave Art in Southern France	161	(16)
Jean Clottes
Symbolism at Catalhoyuk	177	(16)
Ian Hodder
Concluding Remarks and Recollections	193	(6)
John Mulvaney
Abstracts	199	(8)
Appendix: John Grahame Douglas Clark 1907--1995 (the British Academy Memoir)	207	(24)
John Coles
Index	231