An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : : teamwork and insight, 2002

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An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : : teamwork and insight, 2002

Title remainder

teamwork and insight

Statement of responsibility

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

Inclusive dates

2002

Creator

• Clark, J. Desmond, (John Desmond), 1916-

Contributor

• Posnansky, Merrick
• Adamson, D. A., (Donald A)
• Clark, Betty Baume
• Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office
• Blumenschine, Robert J
• Brandt, Steven A
• Williams, M. A. J
• Harris, John William Kendal
• Troy, Timothy
• Kurashina, Hiro
• Smith, Andrew B., (Andrew Brown), 1941-
• Keller, Charles M
• Curtis, Garniss H
• White, T. D., (Timothy D)

Interviewee

• Posnansky, Merrick
• Adamson, D. A., (Donald A)
• Clark, Betty Baume
• Blumenschine, Robert J
• Brandt, Steven A
• Clark, J. Desmond, (John Desmond), 1916-
• Williams, M. A. J
• Harris, John William Kendal
• Kurashina, Hiro
• Smith, Andrew B., (Andrew Brown), 1941-
• Keller, Charles M
• Curtis, Garniss H
• White, T. D., (Timothy D)

Interviewer

• Troy, Timothy

Subject

• Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn, 1937-1985
• Leakey, L. S. B., (Louis Seymour Bazett), 1903-1972
• Oral histories
• University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Anthropology -- Faculty -- Interviews
• University of California, Berkeley, Dept of Anthropology -- History
• Archaeologists -- United States -- Interviews
• Prehistoric peoples -- Africa -- Research
• Archaeology -- Africa
• Rhodes-Livingstone Museum

Genre

• Interviews
• Oral histories

Language

eng

Summary

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

Member of

• University history series

Additional physical form

Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3370 C:1-41.

Biography type

contains biographical information

Cataloging source

CU-BANC

Form designation

oral history transcript

Illustrations

• illustrations
• portraits

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Location of originals duplicates

Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.

Nature of contents

dictionaries