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J. Desmond Clark was born on 10 April, 1916 in London, England, is an English archaeologist. Discover J. Desmond Clark's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 85 years old?

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Age 85 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 10 April 1916
Birthday 10 April
Birthplace London, England
Date of death 14 February, 2002
Died Place Oakland, California, US
Nationality London, England

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1916

John Desmond Clark (10 April 1916 – 14 February 2002) was a British archaeologist noted particularly for his work on prehistoric Africa.

Clark was born in London, but his childhood was spent in a hamlet in the Chiltern Hills of Buckinghamshire.

Clark went to a preparatory boarding school in Buckinghamshire at age 6 1/2, from where he moved on to Monkton Combe School near Bath.

Clark graduated with a BA from Christ's College, Cambridge, under M. C. Burkitt and Grahame Clark.

1937

In 1937 Clark became the curator of Northern Rhodesia's Rhodes-Livingstone Museum (now known as the Livingstone Memorial Museum).

A year later he married Betty Cable née Baume, who would accompany him on a number of expeditions throughout his life.

Clark served in the military during World War II with the East Africa Command forces in Somalia and Ethiopia, being subsequently attached to the British Military Administration, when he managed to find time to carry out archaeological fieldwork in the Horn of Africa.

1947

Following the war, he returned to Cambridge, completing his PhD in 1947.

1948

In 1948 he founded the Northern Rhodesian National Monuments Commission.

Clark then returned to Northern Rhodesia to serve once more as the museum's director.

1952

He was elected FSA in 1952 and FBA in 1961.

He was a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and of the National Academy of Sciences (USA).

1953

In 1953, Clark ordered an excavation at Kalambo Falls, a 235m high, single-drop waterfall at the southeast end of Lake Tanganyika, on what is now the border between Zambia and Tanzania.

The site would eventually emerge as one of the most important archaeological finds of the twentieth century, providing a record of more than two hundred and fifty thousand years of human history.

To date, artefacts of Acheulean, Sangoan, Lupemban, Magosian, Wilton, and Bantu cultures have all been found at the falls.

Clark also undertook significant fieldwork in Ethiopia, Somalia, Malawi, Angola, and Niger, some of which led him to collaborate with Louis and Mary Leakey.

1956

Clark was appointed OBE in 1956 and CBE in 1960.

1961

In 1961, Clark resigned from his post as director of the museum (being succeeded by Gervas C.R. Clay ), and became Professor of Anthropology (subsequently Emeritus) at the University of California, Berkeley, where he taught until his retirement in 1986.

Under his guidance, the programme became one of the world's foremost in paleoanthropology.

1965

In 1965, he was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

1975

His Cambridge ScD was awarded in 1975 and honorary doctorates at Witwatersrand and Cape Town universities in 1985, along with the Gold Medals of the Society of Antiquaries of London (1985) and the Archaeological Institute of America (1989).

1982

He received the Golden Plate Award of the American Academy of Achievement in 1982.

1988

He received the Gold Medal Award for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement in 1988 from the Archaeological Institute of America.

1991

Clark continued working until his death, including a 1991 dig in China that was the first to be led in that country by foreign archaeologists in more than 40 years.

1993

He became an American citizen in 1993.

1997

The British Academy awarded him the Grahame Clark Medal for Prehistory in 1997.

2002

Clark died of pneumonia in Oakland in 2002, having published more than twenty books and over 300 scholarly papers on paleoanthropology and African prehistory in the course of his career.

His wife survived him by only two months.

He is survived by his children, Elizabeth and John.

Over the course of his career, Clark compiled a large scholarly library of scientific books and articles which he donated to his former students, archaeologists Nicholas Toth and Kathy Schick, at the Stone Age Institute where the collection is now housed as the Desmond Clark Memorial Library.