Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most...
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societies. Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe introduced the term "urban revolution" in the 1930s. Childe also coined the term "Neolithic Revolution"...
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introduced to British archaeology by the Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe in the late 1920s. In the United Kingdom and United States, culture-history...
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The steppe theory was first formulated by Otto Schrader (1883) and V. Gordon Childe (1926), then systematized in the 1950s by Marija Gimbutas, who used...
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ambiguity and debate. As noted by V. Gordon Childe, “The concept of ‘city’ is notoriously hard to define”. Childe’s 1950 concept of the “Urban Revolution”...
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to an expected next stage in human evolution in the Childe Cycle novels by Gordon R. Dickson. Childe in Stephen King's The Dark Tower is, in Roland Deschain's...
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(abbr. STK or STbK), Stroked Pottery culture, Danubian Ib culture of V. Gordon Childe, or Middle Danubian culture is the successor of the Linear Pottery...
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four other Maltese megalithic structures as World Heritage Sites. V. Gordon Childe, Professor of Prehistoric European Archeology and director of the Institute...
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or Incised Ware culture, falling within the Danubian I culture of V. Gordon Childe. Most cultural evidence has been found on the middle Danube, the upper...
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further excavation and synthesis went ahead, dominated by figures like V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Julian Thomas and Richard Bradley. The period that...
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outside of the Leninist bloc, most notably by the Australian academic V. Gordon Childe, who used Marxist theory in his understandings of the development of...
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University College London in the United Kingdom, it was founded by V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott and Grahame Clark in 1935 but also traces its founding...
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investigated. The job was given to the University of Edinburgh's Professor V. Gordon Childe, who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid-1927. The inhabitants...
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example, with that of Sir W. Lindsay Scott, who argued, following V. Gordon Childe (1935), for a wholesale migration into Atlantic Scotland of people...
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84. Childe, V. Gordon; Patterson, Thomas Carl; Orser, Charles E. (2004). Foundations of social archaeology: selected writings of V. Gordon Childe. Walnut...
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career goals in a 3-1 home victory over the Chicago Black Hawks. Died: V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist, suicide by jumping from height (b. 1892)...
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term 'neolithic revolution' was invented by V. Gordon Childe in his book Man Makes Himself (1936). Childe introduced it as the first in a series of agricultural...
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of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R. Willey, C.J. Becker...
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lasted from about 9000 BC until 4000 BC (in Britain) in the Neolithic. V. Gordon Childe, The Prehistory of Scotland, 1935, p. 20 "Mesolithic Culture of Europe"...
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12 - J. F. S. Stone, British archaeologist. (b. 1891) October 19 - V. Gordon Childe, Australian prehistorian of Europe (b. 1892) November 9 - Alan Wace...
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rather than people. The classic definition of this idea comes from Gordon Childe: We find certain types of remains – pots, implements, ornaments, burial...
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exactly happened in our long past," drawing comparisons with the work of V. Gordon Childe. Reviewing for American Antiquity archaeologist Jennifer Birch called...
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Indus Valley civilisation is not correct. The Marxist archaeologist V. Gordon Childe carried out excavations in Scotland from the 1920s and concluded that...
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of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R. Willey, C.J. Becker...
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of Archaeology: V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Charles Phillips, Christopher Hawkes, Seton Lloyd, Robert J. Braidwood, Gordon R. Willey, C.J. Becker...
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efficiency of the wheel, the ratio of power output to power input V. Gordon Childe (1928). New Light on the Most Ancient East. p. 110. D.T. Potts (2012)...
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1958) 1892 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962) 1892 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957) 1892 – Claire Windsor...
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sheep and goat. His theory was in opposition to the oasis theory of V. Gordon Childe, which placed the origins of agriculture in well-watered desert refugia...
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having been advertised, it was filled for the first time in 1927 by V. Gordon Childe. Abercromby's will set out the focus of the chair and requirements...
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prehistory as an academic discipline. His methods influenced those of V. Gordon Childe, whose associates dominated the field of archaeology for decades after...
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