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Article: Obituary: Sir Grahame Clark
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- September 19, 1995
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With the death of Grahame Clark, archaeology has lost one of
its most influential figures of the present century.
A product of Marlborough College, Clark went on to be a research
student in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge in 1930, and
subsequently was both Disney Professor of Archaeology in the
University (1952-74) and Master of Peterhouse (1973-80). He was
knighted for his contributions to archaeology in 1992.
Clark's contributions to archaeology were characterised by a
remarkable range and breadth of vision. He came to the subject at a
time when it was in the grip of heavily typologically dominated
studies - more concerned with putting artefacts into their correct
taxonomic ...