The Identity of Man: as seen by an archaeologist

First published in 1982 in the Identity of Man Professor Clark considers a problem which has puzzled men from the authors of the books of the Old Testament to Charles Darwin and his successors: how to reconcile the animal appetites of men with their awareness of gods and their intimations of immortality. What is it that differentiates us most decisively from the other Primates?

He argues that the distinction is to be found primarily in the fact that, whereas the behaviour of other animals is...