Throughout his career Grahame Clark has pioneered on a world scale
the use of the archaeological record to document the economic and
social life of prehistoric communities. In Europe he was the first
to employ the concept of the ecosystem in archaeology and to
underscore the necessarily reciprocal relationship that exists
between culture and environment. In Britain he has played a major
role in moving archaeology away from its preoccupation with
typology and spurring on the newly emergent discipline of
bioarchaeology. Economic Prehistory reflects all these concerns.
Following a comprehensive bibliography of Professor Clark's
writing, the volume opens with a series of classic papers on basic
subsistence activities such as seal hunting, whaling, fowling,
fishing, forest clearance, farming and stock raising. Subsequent
sections then deal with world prehistory and the thorny
relationship between archaeology, education and society. The volume
closes with a retrospective which looks critically at such figures
of the past as Gordon Childe and Mortimer Wheeler and to the
author's own renowned excavations at the Mesolithic site of Starr
Carr.
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