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V. Gordon Childe was born on 14 April 1892 in Sydney, Australia. He was the only surviving child of the Reverend Stephen Henry and Harriet Eliza Childe, a middle-class couple of English descent.
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This volume, originally published in 1935, sought to reveal the significance of Scottish prehistory for the development of understanding of European prehistory. Written at a time of rapid accumulation of new relics and monuments and the insights from them, Professor Childe presented some important new data and made tentative conclusions for the future results from these finds. After an introduction to the geography of Scotland the book looks at evidence from cairns, tombs and stone circles and then addresses chronologically the evidence from Early Bronze Age to Late and onto the Iron Age, with a chapter devoted to forts, towns and castles. It ends with a discussion of what happened in the Dark Ages and addresses questions about the Celts and the Picts and the diversity of the peoples in Scotland.
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Originally published in 1930, this book provides a detailed account of the Bronze Age, which was intended to take up the story of pre-historic industrial development in North-western Europe from where M. C. Burkitt's Our Early Ancestors left it. Numerous illustrative figures and a comprehensive bibliography are also included. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the Bronze Age and the development of technology in general.
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V. Gordon Childe was born on 14 April 1892 in Sydney, Australia. He was the only surviving child of the Reverend Stephen Henry and Harriet Eliza Childe, a middle-class couple of English descent.
V. Gordon Childe studied at Oxford University under Sir Arthur Evans and John Linton Myers. His studies there concerning the relation of archeology and Indo-Aryan languages led to The Dawn of European Civilization and The Aryans. Childe became the first Abercromby professor of prehistoric archeology at the University of Edinburgh in 1927.
From 1928 to 1931 V. Gordon Childe supervised the excavation of the Skara Brae Stone Age village in the Orkney Islands, Scotland.
Childe's aim was to form a truly international approach to prehistoric studies in order to understand how civilizations arose. His method was based on an integrative principle. He related the known events of history to the data of natural history so as to form a total picture of how human civilization had developed. He studied the legal, political, economic, religious, and sociological structures of primitive and developing societies and linked the relevant studies with anthropology, geology, biology, zoology, and paleontology. His Man Makes Himself (1936) and Social Evolution (1951) are prime examples of his power of synthesis.
For Childe the invention of writing was a primary index of civilization. He maintained that the invention of writing by ancient peoples always coincided with a critical threshold in their economic and demographic structure. At that moment they had achieved a certain economic surplus, a definite preoccupation with such things as calendrical astronomy, geometry, and arithmetic, and some literary occupations mainly of a religious bent. In addition, their population involved a more complex sociopolitical organization than ever before. Childe used the term "civilization" to refer to this critical turning point rather than to any qualitative character of the civilization in terms of technological, artistic, and leisure indexes.
V. Gordon Childe taught at the University of Edinburgh until 1946. Later he was director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London from 1946 to 1956.
He died on 19 October 1957 on Mt. Victoria, New South Wales.
Vere Gordon Childe pioneered in the systematic study of European prehistory of the 3d and 2d millenniums B. C. and showed how technological advances marked the birth of human civilizations. Childe is referenced in the American blockbuster film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008).
(Originally published in 1930, this book provides a detail...)
( This volume, originally published in 1935, sought to re...)
(Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civil...)
(This book is the classic introduction to the history of e...)
(Book by V. Gordon Childe)
In Childe's evolution as a scholar, like all 19th- and early-20th-century prehistorians, was strongly influenced by Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1859) and by the positivism of Auguste Comte, Max Weber, and Sir Edward B. Tylor.
The Institute of Archaeology at the University of London
Childe was fond of driving cars, enjoying the "feeling of power" he got from them. He was shy, and often hid his personal feelings and could speak a number of European languages.
Childe ever had a serious relationship with anyone. It is assumed him to be heterosexual because she found no evidence of same-sex attraction. He had many friends of both sexes.
