ABSTRACT
Grahame Clark's major contribution to the war effort was to keep the Prehistoric Society alive, so that it could take giant strides ahead when hostilities ended. Throughout the war, Clark was determined to maintain the publishing activities of the Prehistoric Society despite acute paper shortages. Grahame's introductory address to the Future of Archaeology Conference appeared in Antiquity and is among the most radical of his publications. He argued that "human well-being" should be the overriding aim of education rather than preparation for a career and achieving competitiveness in an increasingly competitive world. Clark's economic prehistory came from diverse intellectual strands— from his multidisciplinary fenland experience and extensive travels through northern Europe, where organic sites were commonplace, from wide reading in European anthropology, history, and folklore, and from an unrivaled knowledge of Mesolithic and Neolithic museum collections.
