ARCHAEOLOGIST

Grahame Clark

1907 - 1995

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Sir John Grahame Douglas Clark (28 July 1907 – 12 September 1995), who often published as J. G. D. Clark, was a British archaeologist who specialised in the study of Mesolithic Europe and palaeoeconomics. He spent most of his career working at the University of Cambridge, where he was appointed Disney Professor of Archaeology from 1952 to 1974 and Master of Peterhouse from 1973 to 1980. Born in Kent to an upper-middle-class family, Clark developed an early interest in archaeology through his collection of prehistoric flint tools. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Grahame Clark has received more than 86,729 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Grahame Clark is the 135th most popular archaeologist (down from 130th in 2019), the 4,783rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,977th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Archaeologist.

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS

Among archaeologists, Grahame Clark ranks 135 out of 151. Before him are José Leite de Vasconcelos, Michael D. Coe, Arthur Surridge Hunt, Davidson Black, John M. Allegro, and Ivan Borkovský. After him are Miroslav Verner, Alexey Okladnikov, Muhibbe Darga, Paolo Orsi, Bernard Pyne Grenfell, and John Garstang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Grahame Clark ranks 349. Before him are John Anderson, László Rajcsányi, Célestin Delmer, Sidney Fox, Quiterio Olmedo, and Policarpo Ribeiro de Oliveira. After him are Toni Frissell, Art Babbitt, Albert Ammons, Vladimirs Petrovs, Johnny Moss, and Aldo Donelli. Among people deceased in 1995, Grahame Clark ranks 283. Before him are T. Keith Glennan, Rauf Hajiyev, René Lemoine, Godfrey Brown, Art Mollner, and George Rodger. After him are Achmad Nawir, Patsy Ruth Miller, Johnny Moss, Dorothy Poynton-Hill, Trevor Blokdyk, and Red Amick.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Grahame Clark ranks 4,783 out of 8,785. Before him are Susan Cooper (1935), Patricia Quinn (1944), Thomas Button (1575), Henry Tate (1819), Ed O'Brien (1968), and Francis Leggatt Chantrey (1781). After him are Mary Putnam Jacobi (1842), Daniel Massey (1933), Mary Midgley (1919), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), Jean Kent (1921), and Celia Johnson (1908).

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Among ARCHAEOLOGISTS In United Kingdom

Among archaeologists born in United Kingdom, Grahame Clark ranks 29. Before him are Meave Leakey (1942), John Beazley (1885), Dorothea Bate (1878), James Quibell (1867), Arthur Surridge Hunt (1871), and John M. Allegro (1923). After him are Bernard Pyne Grenfell (1869), John Garstang (1876), Churchill Babington (1821), Augustus Pitt Rivers (1827), and Jacquetta Hawkes (1910).

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