World prehistory
Subtitle: studies in memory of Grahame Clark
By: edited by John Coles, Robert Bewley & Paul Mellars.
Contributors: Coles, J. M.; Bewley, Robert.; Mellars, Paul.; Prehistoric Society (London, England); British Academy.
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy ;; 99
Publisher: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press; British Academy
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: Clark, Grahame, 1907- -- Congresses.; Antiquities, Prehistoric -- Congresses.; Prehistoric peoples -- Congresses.; Anthropology, Prehistoric -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Papers presented at a symposium held Nov. 22, 1997 at the British Academy, organized jointly by the Prehistoric Society and the British Academy.
Table of contents: title: Grahame Clark and world prehistory: a personal perspective / J. Desmond Clark; title: "Is Homo defined by culture?" / Bernard Wood & Mark Collard; title: Western Cape landscapes / John Parkington; title: Dating the human colonization of Australia: radiocarbon and luminescence revolutions / Rhys Jones; title: Grahame Clark and American archaeology / Brian Fagan; title: Recent advances in the prehistory of south-east Asia / C.F.W. Higham; title: Settlement and palaeoecology in the Scandinavian mesolithic / Lars Larsson; title: Shippea Hill and after: wetlands in North European prehistory and the case of the Donken / Leendert P. Louwe Kooijmans; title: Economic prehistory in southern Scandinavia / Peter Rowley-Conwy; title: Twenty thousand years of palaeolithic cave art in southern France / Jean Clottes; title: Symbolism at Çatalhöyük / Ian Hodder; title: Concluding remarks and recollections / John Mulvaney.