V Gordon Childe
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 123641 |
|---|---|
| NOME | V Gordon Childe |
| PRENOMES | V Gordon |
| SOBRENOME | Childe |
| ASSINATURA | CHILDE V G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Edinburgh |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 167 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 982 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 166 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1922 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
The Early Iron Age
Preliminary Material
The Expansion of Civilization
The Culmination of Bronze Age Civilization
The Climax of Ancient Civilization
Palaeolithic Savagery
The Urban Revolution in Mesopotamia
The Higher Barbarism of the Copper Age
Early Bronze Age Civilization in Egypt and India
Government, Religion and Science in the Iron Age
The Decline and Fall of the Ancient World
Index
Archaeology and History
Neolithic Barbarism
Social Evolution
What Happened in History
PROFESSOR V. GORDON GHILDE, who died in the Blue Mountains of his native Australia in 1957 soon after retiring from the Directorship of the London University Institute of Archaeology, was one of the great pre-historians of the world. More perhaps than any other man he showed how by using the data won by archaeologists and natural scientists it was possible to gain a new view of what constituted human history. Inevitably some of the books in which…
Society and Knowledge
Originally published in 1956, the well-known archaeologist here takes on the role of philosopher. The author argues that knowledge is a social phenomenon, and that our intellectual life is the product of social heritage: reality is the product of different opinions of various societies
New Light on the Most Ancient East
This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley. Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro on the Indus and Harappa on the Ravi, and what these sites have revealed about Indian civilization in the third millennium B.C.…
Piecing Together the Past
Originally published in 1956, *Piecing Together the Past* explores the methods and theories archaeologists use to reconstruct history from material remains. V. Gordon Childe, a prominent figure in archaeological thought, details how artifacts, settlements, and other physical evidence can be interpreted to understand past societies, technologies, and environments. He emphasizes the importance of typology, seriation, and other analytical techniques…
The Dawn of European Civilization
Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and sociologists. This reprinted material is available as a set…
Social Evolution in the Light of Archaeology
This article examines social evolution from an archaeological perspective, arguing against the simplistic application of biological evolutionary models to human societies. Childe critiques the notion of unilinear progress and emphasizes the role of technological innovation, particularly in food production, as a driving force behind societal change. He highlights the importance of studying specific archaeological evidence to understand the diverse…
Fertility in sixty-four developing and developed countries
The Archaeology of Ethnicity
Craft Specialization and Social Evolution
Le mouvement de l'histoire
The Urban Revolution
What Happened in History
PROFESSOR V. GORDON GHILDE, who died in the Blue Mountains of his native Australia in 1957 soon after retiring from the Directorship of the London University Institute of Archaeology, was one of the great pre-historians of the world. More perhaps than any other man he showed how by using the data won by archaeologists and natural scientists it was possible to gain a new view of what constituted human history. Inevitably some of the books in which…
Craft Specialization and Social Evolution
Directional Changes in Funerary Practices During 50,000 Years
New Light on the Most Ancient East
This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley. Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro on the Indus and Harappa on the Ravi, and what these sites have revealed about Indian civilization in the third millennium B.C.…
The Dawn of European Civilisation
Prehistoric Migrations in Europe
Archaeological Ages as Technological Stages
Changing Methods and Aims in Prehistory
This is the first Presidential Address to be delivered before our Society since it has become the Prehistoric Society without qualification. It seems therefore appropriate to choose in preference to any particular problem the general topic of the aims and methods of our science. The last ten years have witnessed an extraordinary increase in the data available to the prehistorian and a remarkable expansion in the field he must survey. For this ver…
Urmensch und Spatkultur
Retrospect
The most original and useful contributions that I may have made to prehistory are certainly not novel data rescued by brilliant excavation from the soil or by patient research from dusty museum cases, nor yet well founded chronological schemes nor freshly defined cultures, but rather interpretative concepts and methods of explanation. So it is the genesis and development of these to which this autobiographical note is devoted.Like Gustav Kossinna…
New Light on the Most Ancient East
The Origin of Neolithic Culture in Northern Europe
Till 1948 the coherent record of farming in Northern Europe began with the neolithic culture represented in the Danish dysser (‘dolmens’) and most readily defined by the funnel-necked beakers, collared flasks and ‘amphorae’ found therein. As early as 1910 Gustav Kossinna had remarked that these distinctive ceramic types, and accordingly the culture they defined, were not confined to the West Baltic coastlands, but recurred in the valleys of the U…
The First Waggons and Carts—from the Tigris to the Severn
At the end of the 12th century A.D. Henry II sent a substantial portion of the provisions and gear for his invasion of Ireland from Abingdon and Oxford to Bristol by cart . At the beginning of the 12th century B.C. a migrating horde from the north conveyed its household goods, women and children to the frontiers of Egypt in ox carts . No doubt the wide alluvial plains of Hither Asia, even before goats and charcoal-burners had stripped them of the…
Is Prehistory Practical
In 1933 it can hardly be alleged that Prehistory is a useless study, wholely remote from and irrelevant to practical life. In one great country at least, interpretations of supposed facts of Prehistory, imperfectly apprehended by an untrained mind of undoubted genius, have revolutionized the whole structure of society. No one who has read Mein Kampf, or even the extracts therefrom in The Times, can fail to appreciate the profound effect which the…
Civilization, Cities, and Towns
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Rotary Querns on the Continent and in the Mediterranean Basin
In his two articles on querns (1) Dr Cecil Curwen has given us a really epoch-making contribution to prehistory and history. Not only has he provided the prehistorian with a new instrument for the establishment of chronology, but he has drawn the attention of excavators to a revolutionary but curiously neglected advance in technology. For the rotary mill is the first major application of rotary motion since the invention of the potter's wheel and…
The Orient and Europe
New Light on the Most Ancient East
The Bronze Age
Journal Article THE BRONZE AGE Get access V. Gordon Childe V. Gordon Childe Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 12, Issue 1, November 1957, Pages 2–15, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/12.1.2 Published: 01 November 1957
Races, Peoples and Cultures in Prehistoric Europe
Re-Excavation of the Chambered Cairn of Quoyness, Sanday, on behalf of the Ministry of Works, 1951-2
Skara Brae
Perhaps the greatest handicap in trying to visualize life in prehistoric Britain is the exiguity of domestic remains, especially on the architectural side. The dwellings themselves were normally of perishable materials so that only their outlines survive, and of their furniture not even that can be said. An exceptional conjunction of circumstances has, however, preserved in Orkney a whole village belonging to a belated Stone Age, with its huts an…
Maes Howe
The Antiquity of the British Bronze Age
The Present State of Archaeological Studies in Central Europe
Schipenitz
Some Affinities of Chalcolithic Culture in Thrace
The Stone Battle-Axes from Troy
VII.— When did the Beaker-folk arrive
The publication of the first volume of Sir Arthur Evans' Palace of Minos marks the beginning of a new era in the prehistory, not only of the Aegean, but of Europe as a whole. In the light of the new material there published and the precise dating of the old, it becomes possible to invest with an absolute value the relative chronology established for parts of central Europe as a result of the patient labours of Professor Vassits of Belgrade, the l…
Recent Books Bearing on the History of Thought and Culture
The Dawn of European Civilisation
Two Bronze Hoards from Hajdusamson, Near Debreczen
Traces of the Aryans on the Middle Danube
The Danube Thoroughfare and the Beginnings of Civilization in Europe
While high civilizations were growing up in Mesopotamia, Egypt, and the Aegean, continental Europe was still recovering from an ice age. Though the glaciers had retreated, the high passes that led across the Alps from the favoured Mediterranean to the interior were still virtually closed by snow. The tundras and steppes where the men of the Old Stone Age had hunted the reindeer were now for the most part covered with a dense forest fostered by th…
The Aryans
The Lausitz Culture
On the continent as in Britain the later phases of the Bronze Age are marked by the spread of large cremation cemeteries generally termed urnfields. One of the several groups of urnfield cultures in Central Europe occupies such a pre-eminent position that it may even claim to be the parent of all the rest. It is known as the Lausitz or Lusatian culture after the area where it is most richly and typically represented-a strip in eastern Saxony and …
The Origin of Some Hallstatt Types
Provisional Report on the Excavations at Skara Brae, and on Finds from the 1927 and 1928 Campaigns
Further excavation and stabilisation of the stone buildings revealed several thousand bone objects including beads, animal teeth and needles. A large midden deposit contained animal bones, limpet shells, ashes, cracked stones, coarse and very friable potsherds, and various artefacts, including Skail flakes, bone pins and beads. An 'inscribed' slab was found close to the burial of two skeletons. Other finds included vessels of whale bone and stone
Excavations in a Chambered Cairn at Kindrochat, near Comrie, Perthshire
Detailed description of a long cairn with two exposed chambers. Both had been disturbed. One was empty and the other contained a partial skeleton and a leaf-shaped arrowhead
Eurasia Septentrionalis Antiqua
EURASIA SEPTENTRIONALIS ANTIQUA: Journal for East European and North Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnography. Edited for the Finnish Archaeological Society by U. T. Sirelius and A. M. Tallgren. Vols. I-III. - Volume 4 Issue 13
Operations at Skara Brae during 1929
Report on second season of excavation at the stone-built 'village' notable for the recovery of large numbers of carved stones. Work demonstrated that occupation was long lived, and a separate industrial area was identified
Second Baltic Archaeological Congress, Riga
The Most Ancient East
The Origin of the Bell-Beaker
Early Man in North-East Yorkshire
The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery
The Chambered Long Cairn at Kindrochat, near Comrie, Perthshire
A much robbed cairn with tree root disturbance covered a central standing stone and three cists, two of which were examined in 1929. The only artefact was a leaf-shaped flint arrowhead from cist 2
Final Report on the Operations at Skara Brae
Final report on excavations of the stone-built Neolithic settlement. Work focussed on areas south and west of the 'Market Place', middens, drains and huts, some of which had been deliberately abandoned. The phases of occupation are considered in detail. Finds included decorated pottery, celts, hammerstones and a variety of stone tools. Two intrusive cist burials were discovered. Includes detailed reports on animal bones and human remains
The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe
V. Gordon Childe, The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe: A Study in Evolution and Diffusion, The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. 61 (Jul. - Dec., 1931), pp. 325-348
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