ABSTRACT
Grahame Clark and Alfred Rust took to each other at once, for they were both independent-minded, determined men with a fanatical devotion to archaeology. Rust was of Clark's age but had lacked the financial resources to attend university. Clark could now indulge his many archaeological interests in the classroom on a regular basis between expeditions into the fens and a heavy investment in the affairs of the Prehistoric Society. In discussing material culture, Clark urges maximizing the potential of well-preserved sites, such as wet locations, using rock art for interpretative purposes, as well as ethnographic analogy. "The finest artifacts of the ancients may look magnificent when displayed in a museum or illustrated in a textbook, but of themselves Clark considered them of little more value than a collection of postage stamps." Clark placed food supply and what he called the "economic basis" at the front of his interpretative concerns.
