An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : oral history transcript : teamwork and insight / 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,

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Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002. An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : oral history transcript : teamwork and insight / 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, 2002.

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An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : oral history transcript : teamwork and insight / 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, 2002.

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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.

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Transcript: 1 v. (xvii, 532 p.) : ill., ports. ; 29 cm.Phonotapes: 41 sound cassettes.

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Anthropology professor at University of California Berkeley who was known as "the dean of African archaelogy." From the description of J. Desmond Clark papers, circa 1929-2002. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 747982776 ...