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An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : oral history transcript : teamwork and insight /
2002.
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An archaeologist at work in African prehistory and early human studies : oral history transcript: teamwork and insight / 2002University history series
Creator/Contributor:
Clark, J. Desmond (John Desmond), 1916-2002, creator, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Troy, Timothy, interviewer.Creator/Contributor:
Clark, Betty Baume, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Smith, Andrew B. (Andrew Brown), 1941-, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Curtis, Garniss H., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Keller, Charles M., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
White, T. D. (Timothy D.), interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Kurashina, Hiro, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Williams, M. A. J., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Adamson, D. A. (Donald A.), interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Brandt, Steven A., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Posnansky, Merrick, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Blumenschine, Robert J., interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Harris, John William Kendal, interviewee.Creator/Contributor:
Bancroft Library, Regional Oral History Office.Abstract:
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.
Date:
2002 (issued)Subject:
n-us-ca -- f------Archaeologists -- United States -- Interviews
Archaeology -- Africa
Prehistoric peoples -- Research -- Africa
Archéologues -- États-Unis -- Entretiens
Archéologie -- Afrique
Archaeologists
Archaeology
Prehistoric peoples -- Research
Universities and colleges -- Faculty
Africa
United States
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology -- Faculty -- Interviews
Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology -- History
Rhodes-Livingstone Museum.
University of California, Berkeley. -- Department of Anthropology.
Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett) -- 1903-1972
Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn -- 1937-1985
Isaac, Glynn Llywelyn -- 1937-1985
Leakey, L. S. B. (Louis Seymour Bazett) -- 1903-1972
Note:
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,
Forms part of the University history series.
Audio tape recording of the interviews also available. Shelved as Phonotape 3370 C:1-41.
Also available online.
Volume includes index.
Duplicate transcript: Dept. of Special Collections, University of California, Los Angeles Library.
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Type:
biographyHistory.
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Physical Description:
print
1 volumes (xvii, 532 pages) : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
41 audiocassettes
Language:
English
Origin:
CaliforniaClassification:
930.1092Copyright Note:
This manuscript is made available for research purposes only. All publication rights are reserved to The Bancroft Library
of the University of California, Berkeley. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional
Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.