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Grahame Clark Medal

award in prehistoric archaeology

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ42291567 ↗
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The Grahame Clark Medal is awarded by the British Academy every two years "for academic achievement involving recent contributions to the study of prehistoric archaeology". It was endowed in 1992 by Sir Grahame Clark, an eminent prehistorian and archaeologist, and first awarded in 1993.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Grahame Clark Medal” is award in prehistoric archaeology. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Grahame, Clark and Medal, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1992, 1993—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1992, 1993—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Grahame, Clark and Medal is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q42291567. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 3 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1992 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Grahame Clark Medal” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.