ABSTRACT
The last of Grahame Clark's published books stressed the uniqueness of humanity in its ability to perceive the dimensions of space and time, as well as by its deliberate expansion of spatial horizons, while also documenting the passage of time in the past and into the future. Mesolithic Prelude appeared in 1980, a short volume based on a Munro lecture, given at Edinburgh University in the previous year. Grahame returned to the theme of ecological approaches to the Mesolithic, which he had discussed in his previous Munro lectures thirty years earlier. Thereafter, the book followed a familiar path, with a discussion of Postglacial climatic change and the ways of identifying it. From there, Clark described the Late Glacial settlement of Denmark and Scania, working his way northward through four chapters from south to north. In 1992, Grahame received a knighthood for his services to archaeology—his research and leadership in fostering world prehistory.
