ABSTRACT
Nineteen fifty-two was the annus mirabilis of Grahame Clark's career, the moment when years of hard work came to fruition and he assumed the Disney Chair. He inherited a department that had undergone considerable change since the war. The Dutch archaeologist Professor H. T. Waterbolk, an experienced excavator of Neolithic settlements in the Netherlands, visited Hurst Fen during the excavations and agreed that the most economic explanation for the "hollows" was that they represented the lower parts of storage pits used for housing grain. The Albert Reckitt lecture brought together the diverse strands of Clark's thinking on economic prehistory, honed by his Star Carr research and his wide readings for the Economic Basis. He concluded his lecture with another famous drawing, this time a nine-sided systems diagram entitled "Interactions Between Different Aspects of the Socio-Cultural Component of Ecosystems Comprehending Agriculture".
