J. Desmond Clark
J. Desmond Clark (1916 - 2002) was a British-born archeologist famed for his explorations of prehistoric Africa. Clark graduated form Cambridge University in the 1937 and worked as a curator of the Livingstone Museum in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) until the outbreak of World War II. During wartime military service, he carried out his first archeological fieldwork in the Horn of Africa. He earned his Ph.D. at Cambridge after the war and returned to Africa to direct the Livingstone Museum and undertook his first excavation on the southern edge of Lake Tanganyika. This site has become one...