J. Desmond Clark

ORCID: 0000-0001-7338-7144
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Research Areas
  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Archaeology and Rock Art Studies
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Global Maritime and Colonial Histories
  • African history and culture analysis
  • African Studies and Geopolitics
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Ancient Egypt and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Rangeland Management and Livestock Ecology
  • Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
  • Archaeological Research and Protection
  • Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
  • African history and culture studies
  • Archaeology and Historical Studies
  • Islamic Studies and History
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Geological and Geophysical Studies
  • African Botany and Ecology Studies
  • Archaeological and Geological Studies
  • Agriculture and Rural Development Research
  • Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
  • Archaeological and Historical Studies

University of Cambridge
2020-2024

Leverhulme Trust
2020-2023

Quartz Corp (Norway)
2023

University of Nebraska at Omaha
2019

American Institute of Iranian Studies
2006-2019

Naval Medical Center San Diego
2014

Murphy Oil Corporation (United States)
2010

Total (Canada)
2009

University of California, Berkeley
1989-2003

Arizona State University
1996

The Hata Member of the Bouri Formation is defined for Pliocene sedimentary outcrops in Middle Awash Valley, Ethiopia. dated to 2.5 million years ago and has produced a new species Australopithecus hominid postcranial remains not currently assigned species. Spatially associated zooarchaeological show that hominids acquired meat marrow by they are near contemporary Oldowan artifacts at nearby Gona. combined evidence suggests behavioral changes with lithic technology enhanced carnivory may have...

10.1126/science.284.5414.625 article EN Science 1999-04-23

A technique for the potassium-argon dating of high potassium feldspars less than 50,000 years age is described. The applied to obtaining precision ages in time-range 60,000-2,000,000 years. Sufficient data are presented show that time-scale Plio-Pleistocene glaciations greater 10 and hominoids capable fashioning tools by working stone at least 1.75 Several other points on human evolution presented. rift faulting Kenya established several Italian volcanoes

10.1086/200619 article EN Current Anthropology 1965-10-01

The wooden artifact widely known as the Clacton Spear (pl. 1) was discovered by Samuel Hazzledine Warren, F.G.S., in 1911. He dug it out of an undisturbed part freshwater sediments, probably a peaty seam, exposed on foreshore at Clacton-on-Sea, c . 80 km ENE London (Warren 1911; 1914, and conversation with K.P.O. 1933). On 30th September 1911, Warren conducted party members Essex Field Club visit to see outcrop Pleistocene fluviatile deposits shore west Pier, brief report this excursion,...

10.1017/s0079497x00010343 article EN Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1977-12-01

10.1007/bf01117453 article EN African Archaeological Review 1985-01-01

Fossils and artifacts recovered from the middle Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar depression sample Middle Pleistocene transition Homo erectus to sapiens. Ar/Ar ages, biostratigraphy, tephrachronology this area indicate that Bodo hominid cranium newer specimens are approximately 0.6 million years old. Only Oldowan chopper flake assemblages present in lower stratigraphic units, but Acheulean bifacial consistently prevalent widespread directly overlying deposits. This technological is related a...

10.1126/science.8009220 article EN Science 1994-06-24

10.2307/3887110 article EN The South African Archaeological Bulletin 1955-03-01

10.2307/2844533 article EN The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1947-01-01

(1942). FURTHER EXCAVATIONS (1939) AT THE MUMBWA CAVES, NORTHERN RHODESIA. Transactions of the Royal Society South Africa: Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 133-201.

10.1080/00359194209519812 article EN Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 1942-01-01

Abstract Current belief ascribes the origins of agriculture in Nile to diffusion fifth millennium B.C. from southwest Asia plants and animals domestication which had first begun there eighth or earlier. A growing body evidence is now becoming available shows cultural pattern Valley at termination Pleistocene have been appreciably more complex than was previously thought necessitates a re-examination on for late appearance Egypt based. This pre-agricultural complexity, when examined light...

10.1017/s0079497x0001255x article EN Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1971-12-01

10.2307/2844270 article EN The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland 1959-07-01
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