An  archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies
Subtitle: teamwork and insight
By: J. Desmond Clark ; with an introduction by Kathy Schick and Nicholas Toth. Interviews conducted by Timothy Troy in 2000-2001. Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley,
Contributors: Troy, Timothy.; Clark, Betty Baume.; Smith, Andrew B. 1941-; Curtis, Garniss H.; Keller, Charles M.; White, T. D.; Kurashina, Hiro.; Williams, M. A. J.; Adamson, D. A.; Brandt, Steven A.; Posnansky, Merrick.; Blumenschine, Robert J.; Harris, John William Kendal.; Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office.
Published: 2002
Subjects: Leakey, L. S. B. 1903-1972.; Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn, 1937-1985.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty -- Interviews.; Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.; University of California, Berkeley. Dept of Anthropology -- History.; Archaeologists -- United States -- Interviews.; Archaeology -- Africa.; Prehistoric peoples -- Africa -- Research.
Genres: Interviews.
Other titles: University history series.
Description: Education in England, Cambridge; pre-war work in Africa, Rhodes-Livingstone Museum history, museum collections, infrastructure; conversation with Betty Clark about family and the museum in wartime; WW II in Somaliland, Yavello, Gondar campaign, ancecdotes; 1947 Pan-African Congress and subsequent congresses; work on patterns of movement, Nachikufu, Kalambo Falls, the winter schools; research work of the sixties, iron and copper smelting, Louis Leakey stories, friendship with Glynn Isaac; developing a "whole picture" approach, tools, foods, hunting; work in Syria, Nyasaland, Malawi; mounting and staffing expeditions, training African students; Ethiopia in the seventies, Porc Epic Cave, Gadeb, the Sudan, political issues; India, G.R. Sharma, Son River valley, research logistics; China's Nihewan Basin; UC Berkeley Department of Anthropology faculty, professional association, research facilities, students and colleagues. Includes dialogues and monologues created in 2001-2002 with colleagues Andrew Smith, Garniss Curtis, Charles Keller, Timothy White, Hiro Kurashina, Martin Williams, Donald Adamson, Steve Brandt, Merrick Posnansky, Robert Blumenschine, and Jack Harris.