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You are here: Past Lectures J. Desmond Clark Home J. Desmond Clark Online: Tribute to J. Desmond Clark Sixth Emeritus Lecture honoring J. DESMOND CLARK Lecture: October 21, 1996 Introductory Remarks by Laura Nader Old World Archaeology: A View from Western Europe , by Paola Villa, University of Bordeaux, France Exhibit J. Desmond Clark: An African Odyssey, exhibit at The George and Mary ...

Categorical Index | Cafe | Library | Gallery | Cafe Music | Lucidcafe Home | September 3, 1999 Louis S.B. Leakey Anthropologist 1903 - 1972 Louis S. B. Leakey was born in Kenya, Africa on August 7, 1903. His parents were British missionaries. Leakey was largely responsible for convincing scientists that Africa was the most significant area to search for evidence of human origins. Most ...

Randi H land Professor, Department of Archeology, University of Bergen Teaching and Research I am a professor of African Archaeology at Department of Archaeology University of Bergen. The chair in African- Middle Eastern Archaeology was created in 1988, the first within African Archaeology in Norway. I started to teach African Archaeology for two years at the newly established Archaeology ...

Choose another writer in this calendar: by name: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z by birthday from the calendar. Credits and feedback Louis Seymour Bazett Leakey (1903-1972) British / Kenyan archaeologist and anthropologist who became famous for his academic work centered on human origins. Louis Leakey, his wife Mary, and their second son Richard made the key discoveries that ...

Lawrence Barham Larry.barham@bristol.ac.uk PhD 1989 Pennsylvania Lecturer in Archaeology and founding member of the Centre for Human Evolutionary Research at the University of Bristol, CHERUB. Since 1993 my field research has been based in Zambia where interdisciplinary teams have been excavating two caves, Mumbwa and Twin Rivers. The results show the modern behaviours, such as pigment use and ...

DeCorse, Christopher Graduate Director & Associate Professor (Ph.D. UCLA, 1987) Office: 209B Maxwell Hall. Phone: 443-4647. E-mail: cdecorse@maxwell.syr.edu My primary research interests are in culture change, ethnicity, and the interpretation of variability in the archaeological record. I am also interested in the identification and dating of trade materials of the historic period. My research ...

J.J. Hublin Tributes to Betty Baume Clark J. Desmond Clark ____________________ This e-memorial was established in February of 2002 to help honor the memory of the late John Desmond Clark, a pioneer in studies of world prehistory. Desmond was a legend in his own time, leaving footprints on every continent. His lifetime of achievement will continue to impress us. His relentless pursuit of ...

Augustin F.C. Holl Augustin F.C. Holl is Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African studies, and Curator of West African Archaeology in the Museum of Anthropology. His research revolves around issues of social evolution, the advent of Food-producing economies, the emergence, and growth of complex social systems in West Africa and the Levant. He has ...