John Grahame Douglas Clark

“The prehistorian is in fact a historian, whose task it is to write the history of man in the ages before the beginnings of written records.”

“The most striking fact about the material culture of hunter-fisher groups is its poverty.”

“My aim has been to show how by studying the economic life of prehistoric communities we can apprehend something of the reality of their existence.”

“The test of a man's humanity is how he confronts the riddle of death.”

“Prehistory, by its very nature, is a social science.”