J. Desmond Clark (1916–2002)
Auteur van The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B.C.
Over de Auteur
Fotografie: J. Desmond Clark talking with a colleague at an airport near Dakar, Senegal (West Africa) by Wikipedia user gbaku.
Werken van J. Desmond Clark
The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1: From the Earliest Times to c. 500 B.C. (1982) — Redacteur — 34 exemplaren
From Hunters to Farmers: The Causes and Consequences of Food Production in Africa (1984) 9 exemplaren
The Victoria Falls : A handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge, and part of the Upper Zambesi River 1 exemplaar
A Pré-História de África 1 exemplaar
The prehistory of southern Africa. 1 exemplaar
The Stone Age Cultures on Northern Rhodesia with Particular Reference to the Cultural and Climatic Succession in the… (1950) 1 exemplaar
The common heritage : the significance of hunter-gatherer societies for human evolution (1990) 1 exemplaar
The Prehistoric Cultures of the Horn of Africa - An analysis of the Stone Age Cultural and Climatic Succession in the… (1972) 1 exemplaar
Stone Age Cultures of Northern Rhodesia 1 exemplaar
The Victoria Falls A Handbook to the Victoria Falls, the Batoka Gorge and Parts of the Upper Zambesi River 1 exemplaar
Adrar Bous 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Clark, John Desmond
- Geboortedatum
- 1916-04-10
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2002-02-14
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Oakland, California, USA
- Opleiding
- University of Cambridge, Christ's College (BA)
Monkton Combe School, Bath, UK - Beroepen
- curator
archaeologist
museum director
professor - Organisaties
- University of California, Berkeley
American Academy of Arts and Sciences - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Archaeological Institute of America Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement (1988)
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The Cambridge History of Africa, Volume 1: From the… door J. Desmond Clark
The volume focuses heavily on archaeology and anthropology, and outside of a brief chapter discussing Egypt, has little consideration of traditional recorded history. The repeated discussion of the classification of fragmentary stone tools and animal and plant remains becomes tedious. Consideration of the geologic and climactic changes to the African continent is a reminder that the current conditions do not define Africa for the entirety of its existence.
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`The discoveries about the origins and cultural history of primitive man in southern Africa. Written nearly 60 years ago, I suspect this has long beeb superceded,
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- 109
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- #178,011
- Waardering
- 3.3
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- 2
- ISBNs
- 13