ABSTRACT
"Folk-Culture and the Study of European Prehistory" ranks among Grahame Clark's more important papers, for the principles behind it formed the basis for a stream of articles that came from his pen between 1942 and 1948. He obtained a Leverhulme Fellowship in 1947 and 1948, which enabled him to travel extensively in northwestern and central Europe. Wherever Clark traveled, he experienced firsthand the traditional economic practices of both coastal and inland communities that were flourishing before industrial agriculture and the Common Market. He argued for the possible use of dogs in seal hunting, "in modern Finland dogs were used to scent out the breathing holes of seals," and assumed that the hunters used skin boats for taking their prey on open water, citing rock engravings of putative skin boats in Norway. Many believe that Prehistoric Europe was Grahame Clark's finest contribution to archaeology, for its pages have an authoritative quality that set the book aside from many others.
