• Thumbnail for V. Gordon Childe
    Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 – 19 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most...
    98 KB (12,426 words) - 03:52, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Three-age system
     84. Childe, V. Gordon; Patterson, Thomas Carl; Orser, Charles E. (2004). Foundations of social archaeology: selected writings of V. Gordon Childe. Walnut...
    87 KB (11,395 words) - 23:40, 13 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Culture-historical archaeology
    introduced to British archaeology by the Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe in the late 1920s. In the United Kingdom and United States, culture-history...
    21 KB (2,631 words) - 19:30, 27 January 2025
  • societies. Australian archaeologist V. Gordon Childe introduced the term "urban revolution" in the 1930s. Childe also coined the term "Neolithic Revolution"...
    7 KB (787 words) - 02:42, 14 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Kurgan hypothesis
    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...
    34 KB (3,818 words) - 02:41, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for History of cities
    surplus of food is necessary before cities can form. According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus...
    45 KB (5,548 words) - 19:16, 11 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Neolithic Revolution
    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...
    96 KB (10,266 words) - 20:51, 23 January 2025
  • rather than people. The classic definition of this idea comes from Gordon Childe: We find certain types of remains – pots, implements, ornaments, burial...
    15 KB (1,828 words) - 21:33, 28 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Proto-city
    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”...
    24 KB (2,862 words) - 01:44, 14 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Marxism
    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...
    144 KB (14,146 words) - 06:27, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Lord Byron
    poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold's Pilgrimage; many of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also...
    126 KB (15,266 words) - 09:04, 19 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Broch
    example, with that of Sir W. Lindsay Scott, who argued, following V. Gordon Childe (1935), for a wholesale migration into Atlantic Scotland of people from...
    24 KB (3,154 words) - 20:13, 27 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Europe (archaeology)
    term 'Danubian culture' was earlier coined by the archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe early farming cultures (e.g. the Linear Pottery culture)...
    27 KB (2,295 words) - 00:42, 16 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Skara Brae
    Professor V. Gordon Childe, who travelled to Skara Brae for the first time in mid-1927. In 2019 a series of photographs showing Childe and four women...
    37 KB (4,121 words) - 01:31, 12 February 2025
  • S2CID 160617108. Gordon Childe, Vere (1940). Prehistoric Communities of the British Isles. London/Edinburgh: W. and R. Chambers. Gordon Childe, Vere (1935)...
    78 KB (6,920 words) - 10:21, 17 February 2025
  • 1958) 1892 – Juan Belmonte, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1962) 1892 – V. Gordon Childe, Australian archaeologist and philologist (d. 1957) 1892 – Claire Windsor...
    69 KB (6,658 words) - 11:20, 16 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Uruk period
    simultaneously with the appearance of the first cities (following Gordon Childe), is generally accepted in scholarship but has been criticised by some...
    119 KB (16,407 words) - 20:10, 28 January 2025
  • anti-nationalism derived from Marxist archaeology, going back to V. Gordon Childe, who during the interwar period combined "evolutionism" and "diffusionism"...
    14 KB (1,687 words) - 17:56, 23 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Linear Pottery culture
    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...
    79 KB (8,859 words) - 15:41, 24 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Ħaġar Qim
    four other Maltese megalithic structures as World Heritage Sites. V. Gordon Childe, Professor of Prehistoric European Archeology and director of the Institute...
    33 KB (3,307 words) - 21:43, 17 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for North European hypothesis
    Adams 1997, p. 596. Haudry 1981. Boettcher 1999, p. 148. Gordon Childe 1926, p. 177. Gordon Childe 1926, p. 177-178. Boettcher, Carl-Heinz (1999), Röhrig...
    7 KB (886 words) - 08:33, 13 August 2024
  • entertainer James Warren Childe, English painter Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist and archaeologist Wilfred Rowland Childe, British poet and critic...
    762 bytes (109 words) - 10:07, 4 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Stroke-ornamented ware culture
    (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 culture...
    5 KB (420 words) - 06:30, 17 February 2025
  • the School of History, Classics and Archaeology), in succession to Gordon Childe. Piggott succeeded in making Edinburgh an archaeology department of...
    14 KB (1,259 words) - 05:20, 27 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Danubian culture
    term Danubian culture was coined by the Australian archaeologist Vere Gordon Childe to describe the first agrarian society in Central Europe and Eastern...
    3 KB (278 words) - 16:19, 15 June 2024
  • States, New York Times, 4 March 1983 Pearce, William J. (1988). "Vere Gordon Childe and American Anthropology". Journal of Anthropological Research. 44...
    63 KB (3,245 words) - 12:01, 21 January 2025
  • Thumbnail for Cradle of civilization
    to conditions coming almost exclusively from intensive agriculture. Gordon Childe defined the development of civilization as the result of two successive...
    122 KB (13,611 words) - 00:45, 20 February 2025
  • Thumbnail for Gordon (given name)
    administrator Gordon Burns (b. 1942), Northern Irish television presenter Gordon Campbell (disambiguation), multiple people Vere Gordon Childe (1892–1957)...
    12 KB (1,421 words) - 10:36, 25 January 2025
  • professional woman archaeologist in Scotland. She was a member of V. Gordon Childe's team of archaeologists at Skara Brae and Kindrochat, as well as the...
    8 KB (810 words) - 01:23, 1 December 2024
  • Thumbnail for Neolithic British Isles
    further excavation and synthesis went ahead, dominated by figures like V. Gordon Childe, Stuart Piggott, Julian Thomas and Richard Bradley. The period that...
    31 KB (3,525 words) - 07:42, 18 January 2025