1996/05/20 by Pamela Jane Smith · 1 voice · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation #3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
paper · pdf · doi:10.5334/bha.06103
openalex publication_date 1996/05/20 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/01
If honours and titles give measure of a man, then Professor Sir Grahame Clark was indeed important. Faculty Assistant Lecturer in the Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology at Cambridge University from 1935-46, University Lecturer 1946-52, Disney Professor of Archaeology 1952-74, Head of the Department of Archaeology and Anthropology 1956-61 and 1968-71, Fellow of Peterhouse, Cambridge 1950-73, Master of Peterhouse 1973-80, he was a visiting lecturer at diverse universities; appointed CBE in 1971, he received many awards including the prestigious Erasmus Prize for 1990, presented by Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, for his "long and inspiring devotion to prehistory" (Scarre 1991:10); and in June 1992, he was knighted.<br /><br />Yet well before fame and position were rewards, Clark made major contributions to the establishment of prehistory as an academic subject at Cambridge University. Cambridge was the first and, for many years, only British university granting an undergraduate degree which offered prehistory as a specialization. "The development of postgraduate research in prehistoric archaeology at Cambridge had to wait on the provision of undergraduate teaching;' Clark (1989b: 6) recently observed. The "faculty was the only one in Britain producing a flow of graduates in prehistoric archaeology" (Clark 1989a: 53).