J G D Clark
Biographic Data
| ID | 257248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J G D Clark |
| GIVEN NAMES | J G D |
| FAMILY NAME | Clark |
| SIGNATURE | CLARK J G D |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1930 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Defan Doesn’t Recall An Interpretive Analysis
This review article examines Defan, an Oral Telling of the Lineage of Someone Whipping a Tiger, from Saiburi (เดฟั่น เรื่องเล่าของตระกูลคนเฆี่ยนเสือจากไทรบุรี), a 2021 SEA Write Award-winning novel by Siriworn Kaewkan. The novel’s 65 chapters explore themes of memory, lineage, and historical amnesia through the protagonist, Defan, who metaphorically tames a tiger. For simplicity, this article adopts the shortened title Defan Doesn’t Recall. It pr…
Bioarchaeology
Prehistoric Europe
The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. I, Ch. II. Physical Conditions in Eastern Europe, Western Asia and Egypt before the Period of Agricultural and Urban Settlement
Radiocarbon dating and the expansion of farming culture from the Near East over Europe
The pursuit of radiocarbon dating is one of those elegant exercises in pure science that is fully justified as an end in itself and has justly brought world renown to its inventor. The purpose of this communication is merely to examine one of its many applications, namely the light it has thrown on the westward spread of farming from the ecologically focal regions of south-west Asia to Europe and north Africa. Because of its impact on the evolvin…
Radiocarbon Dating and the Spread of Farming Economy
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Neolithic Bows from Somerset, England, and the Prehistory of Archery in North-western Europe
The object of this paper is first to describe and reconstruct the halves of two Neolithic bows found in the course of peat-digging in the Somerset Levels during 1961 and second to put these in historical perspective in relation to the development of archery in north-western Europe. The outcome of comparative studies has been to show that the Somerset bows fall into the last quarter of the first major cycle in the history of the bow in this part o…
The Neolithic in The Cambridgeshire Fens
By common consent the spread of Neolithic culture has been one of the first objectives of radiocarbon dating in north-western Europe. This is due primarily to the intrinsic historical importance of this process, but the fact that the inception of husbandry has left clear indicators in the palaeobotanical record means that decisive samples are readily available. In the present paper an account will first be given of the reinvestigation of the site…
Excavations at the Neolithic Site at Hurst Fen, Mildenhall, Suffolk (1954, 1957 and 1958)
The site at Hurst Fen in the parish of Mildenhall, Suffolk, was first brought within the cognizance of prehistorians by Lady Grace Briscoe, F.S.A., whose investigations, published in 1954, were sufficient to make it a type site of the East Anglian group of the British primary Neolithic settlement. Thanks are due to Lady Briscoe for most generously encouraging more extensive excavations and to the Crowther-Benyon Fund administered by the Universit…
Perspectives in Prehistory
The Presidency of the Prehistoric Society to which you have done me the great honour of calling me, differs from that of some other societies in that, though the period of office is four years the President is only required to deliver one Address. No doubt we owe this mercy to the fact that our customs have taken shape during an age, which it would be tempting providence to call more humane, but which is at any rate less tolerant of some forms of…
Notes on the Obanian with special reference to antler-and bone-work
Blade and Trapeze Industries of the European Stone Age
It is the purpose of this article to analyze and discuss the flint industries characterized by the production of trapezes from blades that as a rule were broad and regular, industries which appeared in many parts of the continent during the closing phase of the local mesolithic. After a word on classification (fig. 1) the evidence for the occurrence of these industries will be summarized on a geographical basis (fig. 2). Finally, some discussion …
A Maglemosian Site at Brandesburton, Holderness, Yorkshire
The object of this article is to record the discovery of a group of Maglemosian spearheads from Brandesburton and of a single specimen from the foreshore at Hornsea, both in the Holderness region of East Yorkshire; to describe the new finds in detail and to compare them with those previously known from eastern England; and to record (Part II) the results of a palaeoecological investigation of the immediate area of the Brandesburton discovery. The…
A Microlithic Industry from the Cambridgeshire Fenland and other Industries of Sauveterrian Affinities from Britain
One of Professor Childe's leading characteristics as a prehistorian has been the range and depth of his interests and sympathies. In the present contribution it is desired to acknowledge the interest he has shown in the mesolithic background to the neolithic colonization of Europe and his uncommon awareness of the relevance of Quaternary Research to the problems of prehistory. The opportunity will be taken to reconsider, in the light of a more ab…
The Study of Prehistory
The Early Iron Age Site at Micklemoor Hill West Harling, Norfolk, and its Pottery
The Iron Age settlement on Micklemoor Hill, West Harling, (Nat. Grid 62/975857) was discovered by Mr H. Apling while prospecting for Bronze Age cooking-places on the course of the river above Thetford during 1932. The site is a prominent hill of glacial gravel approximately 300 yards long and 150 yards wide, rising some 20 feet above the level of the surrounding marsh and rough grazing pasture and bounded to the north at a distance of between 200…
The Groove and Splinter Technique of working antler in Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe
The excavations carried out between 1949–51 at the Proto-Maglemosian site of Star Carr, near Seamer, Yorkshire, yielded abundant remains of the wild animals hunted during the Pre-boreal stage phase of the Post-glacial period in north-eastern England (J. G. D. Clark, 1949, 1950, 1954). Examination of this material has thrown much light on the methods used to make implements and weapons from the antlers and bones of animals killed primarily for foo…
Prehistoric Europe
Prehistoric Europe, The Economic Basis
Prehistoric Europe; The Economic Basis
The Earliest Settlement of the West Baltic Area in the Light of Recent Research
When the present writer published his Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe in 1936, much had already been established about the pre-neolithic occupation of the West Baltic area. Paradoxically it is for this very reason that recent advances in this field are of more than regional interest, for it is only by intensifying fundamental research in the most favourable territories, in conjunction with more extensive surveys, that we can gain the evi…
Preliminary Report on Excavations at Star Carr, Seamer, Scarborough, Yorkshire (Second Season, 1950)
The first season's digging at Star Carr, Seamer, was confined to the examination of a single cutting and a lateral extension from this, the whole area amounting to no more than 475 square feet. The second season's work carried out in June and July 1950 was aimed first and foremost at learning more about the character of the brushwood flooring revealed in 1949 and in increasing the range of data bearing on the culture of the mesolithic hunters and…
Report on Excavations on the Cambridgeshire Car Dyke, 1947
The excavations described in this report were aimed at establishing more about the character of the Cambridgeshire Car Dyke and at defining the period during which it was in active use. The dyke, which traverses with several changes of direction the low gravel and loam promontory between the fork of the Cam or Granta immediately south of Waterbeach and the alluvium of the Old West River (and present Ouse) north-north-east of Cottenham (fig. 1), v…
A Preliminary Report on Excavations at Star Carr, Seamer, Scarborough, Yorkshire, 1949
The object of the excavations described in this preliminary report was to recover evidence of: ( a ) the more perishable elements in the material culture of a Maglemosian community, ( b ) the fauna on which this community largely subsisted and ( c ) the vegetation which formed the ecological setting of man and beast alike. The best way of appreciating the need for such an investigation and of judging the measure of success attained in this first …
Objects of South Scandinavian Flint in the Northernmost Provinces of Norway, Sweden and Finland
The data for this paper were obtained in the course of a journey round Scandinavia made during the summer of 1947 with the aid of a Leverhulme Research Grant. Most of the evidence is housed in the Tromsö Museum, the Statens Historiska Museum, Stockholm, and the National Museum at Helsingfors, and I am thankful to the authorities of these for ready access to their great collections and for help in many ways. A certain amount of the material from t…
Excavations at the Neolithic Site at Hurst Fen, Mildenhall, Suffolk (1954, 1957 and 1958)
The site at Hurst Fen in the parish of Mildenhall, Suffolk, was first brought within the cognizance of prehistorians by Lady Grace Briscoe, F.S.A., whose investigations, published in 1954, were sufficient to make it a type site of the East Anglian group of the British primary Neolithic settlement. Thanks are due to Lady Briscoe for most generously encouraging more extensive excavations and to the Crowther-Benyon Fund administered by the Universit…
The Groove and Splinter Technique of working antler in Upper Palaeolithic and Mesolithic Europe
The excavations carried out between 1949–51 at the Proto-Maglemosian site of Star Carr, near Seamer, Yorkshire, yielded abundant remains of the wild animals hunted during the Pre-boreal stage phase of the Post-glacial period in north-eastern England (J. G. D. Clark, 1949, 1950, 1954). Examination of this material has thrown much light on the methods used to make implements and weapons from the antlers and bones of animals killed primarily for foo…
Neolithic Bows from Somerset, England, and the Prehistory of Archery in North-western Europe
The object of this paper is first to describe and reconstruct the halves of two Neolithic bows found in the course of peat-digging in the Somerset Levels during 1961 and second to put these in historical perspective in relation to the development of archery in north-western Europe. The outcome of comparative studies has been to show that the Somerset bows fall into the last quarter of the first major cycle in the history of the bow in this part o…
The Development of Fishing in Prehistoric Europe
Although fishing, together with most of its principal appliances, was found to be of almost universal occurrence by European explorers as they penetrated the remoter parts of the world, it seems to have appeared as a specialized activity comparatively late in the history of the hominids. Whereas even the anthropians had added the resources of hunting to the vegetarian diet of their simian forebears, it was left to Homo sapiens in his evolved form…
Report on Recent Excavations at Peacock's Farm, Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire
Peacock's Farm in the parish of Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire, is situated in the SE. corner of the Fenland some 7 miles ENE. of Ely and about 20 miles almost due south of King's Lynn. The position of the site is shown in fig. 1, in which areas of alluvial deposit are reserved and more ancient deposits are obliquely shaded, marking the margin of the fen basin and in places islands, which break the monotony of the level fen. Crossing the map obliqu…
Seal-Hunting in the Stone Age of North-Western Europe
Although it has been widely recognised that the bones of seals occur on Stone Age sites in various parts of north-western Europe, no comprehensive attempt to clarify the history and estimate the role of seal-hunting in the economy of Stone Age Europe has yet been made. The research, on which the present paper is based, is part of a programme to further knowledge of prehistoric times by the study of social activities. Seal-hunting is here consider…
Radiocarbon dating and the expansion of farming culture from the Near East over Europe
The pursuit of radiocarbon dating is one of those elegant exercises in pure science that is fully justified as an end in itself and has justly brought world renown to its inventor. The purpose of this communication is merely to examine one of its many applications, namely the light it has thrown on the westward spread of farming from the ecologically focal regions of south-west Asia to Europe and north Africa. Because of its impact on the evolvin…
Prehistoric Europe, The Economic Basis
Report on a Late Bronze Age Site in Mildenhall Fen, West Suffolk
The history of the invasive movements associated with the diffusion of Deverel-Rimbury pottery during the Late Bronze Age in Britain can be studied from two main points of view. We may seek to discover the continental sources of the various components of the general complex, and in this way arrive at the origins of the movement and its chronology in terms of continental cultures; or we may adopt the less spectacular, if no less interesting, cours…
The Early Iron Age Site at Micklemoor Hill West Harling, Norfolk, and its Pottery
The Iron Age settlement on Micklemoor Hill, West Harling, (Nat. Grid 62/975857) was discovered by Mr H. Apling while prospecting for Bronze Age cooking-places on the course of the river above Thetford during 1932. The site is a prominent hill of glacial gravel approximately 300 yards long and 150 yards wide, rising some 20 feet above the level of the surrounding marsh and rough grazing pasture and bounded to the north at a distance of between 200…
The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
The Neolithic in The Cambridgeshire Fens
By common consent the spread of Neolithic culture has been one of the first objectives of radiocarbon dating in north-western Europe. This is due primarily to the intrinsic historical importance of this process, but the fact that the inception of husbandry has left clear indicators in the palaeobotanical record means that decisive samples are readily available. In the present paper an account will first be given of the reinvestigation of the site…
A Preliminary Report on Excavations at Star Carr, Seamer, Scarborough, Yorkshire, 1949
The object of the excavations described in this preliminary report was to recover evidence of: ( a ) the more perishable elements in the material culture of a Maglemosian community, ( b ) the fauna on which this community largely subsisted and ( c ) the vegetation which formed the ecological setting of man and beast alike. The best way of appreciating the need for such an investigation and of judging the measure of success attained in this first …
Radiocarbon Dating and the Spread of Farming Economy
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Prehistoric Europe
Archaeology of the Submerged Land-Surface of the Essex Coast
Collectors of prehistoric antiquities have long regarded the foreshore of long stretches of the Essex Coast between the rivers Stour and Blackwater as a prolific hunting ground, and many notable collections, consisting mainly of flints, have been obtained from this area. It is not the purpose of this paper to record these discoveries in detail, but rather to discuss the circumstances under which the antiquities are found, to summarise the main fa…
Excavations at Farnham, Surrey (1937–38)
The scene of the excavations described in the first part of this paper is the Sewage Farm of the Farnham (Surrey) Urban District Council, situated on the gravels of the old course of the Blackwater River to the north-east of the town at an elevation of c. 250 ft. O.D. (fig. 1). The surface of the gravel within the area investigated is level, but to the west it slopes upwards to Farnham Park. From here there issues the course of a stream, which, s…
Blade and Trapeze Industries of the European Stone Age
It is the purpose of this article to analyze and discuss the flint industries characterized by the production of trapezes from blades that as a rule were broad and regular, industries which appeared in many parts of the continent during the closing phase of the local mesolithic. After a word on classification (fig. 1) the evidence for the occurrence of these industries will be summarized on a geographical basis (fig. 2). Finally, some discussion …
A Maglemosian Site at Brandesburton, Holderness, Yorkshire
The object of this article is to record the discovery of a group of Maglemosian spearheads from Brandesburton and of a single specimen from the foreshore at Hornsea, both in the Holderness region of East Yorkshire; to describe the new finds in detail and to compare them with those previously known from eastern England; and to record (Part II) the results of a palaeoecological investigation of the immediate area of the Brandesburton discovery. The…
A Microlithic Industry from the Cambridgeshire Fenland and other Industries of Sauveterrian Affinities from Britain
One of Professor Childe's leading characteristics as a prehistorian has been the range and depth of his interests and sympathies. In the present contribution it is desired to acknowledge the interest he has shown in the mesolithic background to the neolithic colonization of Europe and his uncommon awareness of the relevance of Quaternary Research to the problems of prehistory. The opportunity will be taken to reconsider, in the light of a more ab…
A Late Bronze Age Find near Stuntney, Isle of Ely
For more than seven years the Fenland Research Committee has been investigating the post-glacial history of the Fenland with a view to correlating archaeological remains and recent geological deposits. By this means evidence has been collected which bears upon the age of early phases of human settlement in East Anglia and upon the natural conditions prevailing at different periods. It has sometimes been possible to undertake systematic and purpos…
Microlithic Industries from Tufa Deposits at Prestatyn, Flintshire and Blashenwell, Dorset
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Derivative Forms of the Petit Tranchet in Britain
The Classification of a Microlithic Culture
(1933). The Classification of a Microlithic Culture: The Tardenoisian of Horsham. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 52-77
The Mesolithic Age in Britain
A New Pigmy Site in Sussex
A Note on North European Flint Arrowheads
Note on Two Flints from Hastings
The Dual Character of the Beaker Invasion
In his classic work on the Bronze Age pottery of Britain the late Lord Abercromby adopted the old division of the class of beaker pottery into three types originally proposed by Dr Thurnam as far back as 1871. In order that Abercromby may not be misrepresented I propose to quote the essential portions of his definitions. In type A, the ' high-brimmed globose beaker ', ' the body is more or less globular ; the upper part, separated from the body b…
Note on Some Flint Daggers of Scandinavian Type from the British Isles
"Fresh Evidence for the Dating of Gold "Lunulae
The Mesolithic Age in Britain
The Classification of a Microlithic Culture
(1933). The Classification of a Microlithic Culture: The Tardenoisian of Horsham. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 90, No. 1, pp. 52-77
An Early Mesolithic Site at Broxbourne, Sealed Under Boreal Peat
The Age of the Pennine Peats
Derivative Forms of the Petit Tranchet in Britain
A Late Mesolithic Settlement Site at Selmeston, Sussex
Flint implements were first discovered in the working of the sand-pit immediately to the east of Selmeston church almost mid-way between Lewes and Polegate, Sussex, by Mr. W. J. Parsons, who at that time was resident in the neighbouring village of Alciston. The news soon reached the ears of Dr. E. Curwen, F.S.A., who arranged to secure the flints as they were recovered. Towards this he enlisted the aid of Mr. H. A. Davies of Selmeston, who has no…
An Early Mesolithic Site at Broxbourne Sealed Under Boreal Peat
S. Hazzledine Warren, J. G. D. Clark, H. Godwin, M. E. Godwin, W. A. Macfadyen, An Early Mesolithic Site at Broxbourne Sealed Under Boreal Peat, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 64 (Jan. - Jun., 1934), pp. 101-128
Neolithic Houses, Denmark
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Notes on Excavations in England, the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, during 1935
The authors of these notes have to acknowledge the ready co-operation of the numerous excavators who have kindly contributed information concerning their work. The foregoing notes are designed to put members of the Prehistoric Society in possession of the main results of the summer's work, most of which will not be published in full for several months. Once again we would draw attention to the fact that notes on the publications of the year will …
Report on Recent Excavations at Peacock's Farm, Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire
Peacock's Farm in the parish of Shippea Hill, Cambridgeshire, is situated in the SE. corner of the Fenland some 7 miles ENE. of Ely and about 20 miles almost due south of King's Lynn. The position of the site is shown in fig. 1, in which areas of alluvial deposit are reserved and more ancient deposits are obliquely shaded, marking the margin of the fen basin and in places islands, which break the monotony of the level fen. Crossing the map obliqu…
Flint Arrow-Heads from the Grave of Mes-Kalam-Dug, Ur
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Notes on Excavations in England, the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, during 1936
The authors of these notes acknowledge the ready co-operation of the numerous excavators who have contributed information concerning their work carried out during the present year
Early Navigation in North Western Europe
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Archaeology of the Submerged Land-Surface of the Essex Coast
Collectors of prehistoric antiquities have long regarded the foreshore of long stretches of the Essex Coast between the rivers Stour and Blackwater as a prolific hunting ground, and many notable collections, consisting mainly of flints, have been obtained from this area. It is not the purpose of this paper to record these discoveries in detail, but rather to discuss the circumstances under which the antiquities are found, to summarise the main fa…
Report on a Late Bronze Age Site in Mildenhall Fen, West Suffolk
The history of the invasive movements associated with the diffusion of Deverel-Rimbury pottery during the Late Bronze Age in Britain can be studied from two main points of view. We may seek to discover the continental sources of the various components of the general complex, and in this way arrive at the origins of the movement and its chronology in terms of continental cultures; or we may adopt the less spectacular, if no less interesting, cours…
Notes on Excavations in England, the Irish Free State, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, during 1937
The authors of these notes acknowledge the ready collaboration of the numerous excavators who have contributed information or notes concerning work carried out during the present year
The Mesolithic Settlement of Northern Europe
Mesolithic Pit-dwellings
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Microlithic Industries from Tufa Deposits at Prestatyn, Flintshire and Blashenwell, Dorset
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