John Desmond Clark

John Desmond Clark or, more commonly, J. Desmond Clark is a British Archéologue born on April 10th, 1916 and dead on February 14th, 2002. He in particular studied the Préhistoire of the Africa.

Course

J. Desmond Clark studied in Monkton Combe School close to Bath and obtained its diploma of first cycle (B.A.) to the Christ' S College with the Université of Cambridge. In 1937, it becomes preserving Livingstone Memorial Museum in Rhodesia of North.

One year later, he marries Betty Behaume, which will accompany it during many forwardings throughout its life. During the Second world war, Clark is soldier in the Horn of Africa, where he begins archaeological research. In 1947, it goes back to Cambridge where it completes its Ph.D. It returns then to Rhodesia as a director of the Museum. In 1953, he undertakes the Fouille of a prehistoric site near to the Chutes of Kalambo ( Kalambo Falls ) at the south-eastern end of the Lac Tanganyika, on the current border between the Zambia and the Tanzania. The site delivers one of the most important sequences Paléolithique S of Africa, with occupations Acheuléen born, Sangoen born, Lupembien born, Magosien born, Wilton and Bantou be.

It also takes part in important work of ground in Ethiopia, in Somalia, with the Malawi, in Angola and with the Niger. He collaborates in particular with Louis and Mary Leakey. In 1961, Clark becomes professor of Anthropologie to Berkeley, where he teaches until his retirement in 1986.

It continues its research until its death, in particular while directing in 1991 one of the first excavations led in China by foreign archeologists.

He dies of a Pneumonie with Oakland in 2002, leaving more than twenty works and more than 300 scientific articles relating to the paleoanthropology and African Prehistory. His wife survives to him only two months. They had two children, Elizabeth and John.

See too

Principal publications

  • The Prehistoric Cultures off the Horn off Africa , 1954

  • Background to Evolution in Africa (with W.W. Bishop), 1967
  • The Prehistory off Africa , 1970
  • The Cambridge History off Africa: From the Earliest Times to C. 500 BC , 1982

Biography

  • Daniel, Glyn Edmund; Chippindale, Christopher. The Pastmasters: Eleven Modern Pioneers off Archeology: V.  Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert  J. Braidwood, Gordon  R. Willey, C.J.  Becker, Sigfried  J. De Laet, J.  Desmond Clark, D.J.  Mulvaney . New York: Thames and Hudson, 1989 (ISBN 0500050511).

External bonds

  • CPU Berkeley obituary
  • Leakey Foundation close release
  • Newspaper off Anthropological Research Tribute
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