Grahame Clark's new archaeology: The Fenland Research Committee and Cambridge prehistory in the 1930s

The Fenland Research Committee, founded in 1932, guided research in the low wetlands north of Cambridge in east England. Its work marked a turning-point in the developing prehistory of Sir Grahame Clark, a change so profound if is here called a 'new archaeology'. A leading approach now as 'ecological archaeology', it is here shown to have its conception in certain goals, definitions, concepts, and assumptions - and in the field circumstances which promoted a then-new approach to prehistoric materials.