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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Pamela Jane Smith
Pamela Jane Smith*
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Department of Archaeology, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, England. E-mail: [email protected]
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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.

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Antiquity , Volume 71 , Issue 271 , March 1997 , pp. 11 - 30
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1997

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