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Obituary: Professor J. Desmond Clark

The Independent (London, England) | February 22, 2002 | Copyright

J. DESMOND CLARK was for six decades a leading figure in the archaeology in sub-Saharan Africa.

Graduating from Christ's College, Cambridge, in 1937, he was appointed Director of the Rhodes-Livingstone Museum in Livingstone, Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). He held this post, with interruptions for military service, until 1961 when he became Professor in "Old World Archaeology" at the University of California, Berkeley.

His appointment to Livingstone was heralded in a manuscript letter to a colleague from the then Provincial Commissioner: "The new man, Clark, arrives next…

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