ABSTRACT
Grahame Clark's long career from the 1930s to the 1970s spanned an extraordinary transition in which archaeology developed from a largely amateur pastime into a highly specialized scientific discipline. Working with minimal resources, he was one of a handful of men and women who turned prehistoric archaeology from a basically amateur pursuit into a multidisciplinary enterprise. Grahame had spotted some flints and dismounted to collect them, promptly forgetting about his mount. A half century earlier, in the 1880s, General Augustus Lane Fox Pitt-Rivers had inherited the enormous Cranborne Chase estates in southern England. The general had long nurtured an interest in ethnography and now indulged a passion for archaeological excavation on his land. The general doctrines of human progress inculcated at Marlborough were a powerful and lifelong catalyst for a fledgling archaeologist's thinking, whose own mind moved far beyond elemental notions of linear evolution.
