Grahame Clark's new archaeology: the Fenland Research Committee and Cambridge prehistory in the 1930s

• Autores: Pamela Jane Smith
• Localización: Antiquity, ISSN 0003-598X, Vol. 71, Nº 271, 1997, págs. 11-30
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The Fenland Research Committee, founded in 1932, guided research in the low wetlands north of Cambridge in east England. Its work marked a turning-point in the developing prehistory of Sir Grahame Clark, a change so profound it is here called a ‘new archaeology’. A leading approach now as ‘ecological archaeology’, it is here shown to have its conception in certain goals, definitions, concepts, and assumptions — and in the field circumstances which promoted a then-new approach to prehistoric materials.