Yours (unusually) cheerfully, Gordon”
Vere Gordon Childe's letters to R.B.K. Stevenson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9607399 |
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| Authors | Alice Stevenson (0000-0002-6118-6086, University of Oxford, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 85 |
| Issue | 330 |
| Pages | 1454-1462 |
| Publication date | 2011-11-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00062189 |
| OpenAlex | W937198307 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 13 |
In early 1988 my grandfather, Robert Barron Kerr Stevenson (1913—1992), former Keeper of the National Antiquities of Scotland, was asked about his recollections of his former teacher and colleague Vere Gordon Childe. “There is”, he wrote in reply, “very little that I can say of use to you”. The reason for such a statement seems to be that my grandfather felt that his contacts with Childe had never been concerned with the broad historical and philosophical concepts that scholars were so interested in, believing rather that his own academic perspectives were more from the “worm's eye than the bird's eye view”. Yet what my grandfather knew was a more personal side to Childe that does not come across in his published works
Epistemology · Statement (logic · Archaeological Research and Protection · Classics · History · Philosophy
The dawn of European civilisation.
Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles
Prehistorian
Some relics from Kildalton, Islay
The Neolithic Cultures of South-East Italy
The Antiquity of the One-edged Bronze Knife in the Aegean
Pins and the Chronology of Brochs
Gordon Childe and Scottish Archaeology
Gordon Childe
The circumstances of the first prehistoric science in Italy
| Highly cited | No |
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