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	Vere Gordon Childe
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892 - October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory.
		Childe was born in 1892 in Sydney, and came to Britain to attend the University of Oxford (Queen's College).
		Childe was unusual in emphasising the Hellenistic period as the apex of Graeco-Roman civilisation, rather than the world of Athens in the 5th century BC, or that of the Roman Empire.
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	Vere Gordon Childe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892–October 19, 1957) was an Australian philologist by training who later specialised in archaeology, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory.
		Childe was born in 1892 in Sydney, and came to Britain to attend the University of Oxford (Queen's College).
		Childe was unusual in emphasising the Hellenistic period as the apex of Graeco-Roman civilisation, rather than the world of Athens in the 5th century BC, or that of the Roman Empire.
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	Childe Vere Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892, Sydney, New South Wales – October 19, 1957, Mt. Victoria, New South Wales) was an Australian philologist by training who later specialised in archaeology...
		Vere Gordon Childe, born on April 14, 1892, was a prominent archaeologist and scholar in...
		Childe was an Australian-born archaeologist best known for his theories about the development of prehistoric civilisation.
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		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892 - October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory.
		Perhaps it was natural that, being an archaeologist with only the material artefacts of the past to inform him, he should be drawn to an overarching theory of hsitory which explained everything as a result of the changes in the modes of production.
		Further developmemts in civilisation (Childe did concentrate his attention on Europe and the Near East, despite the occasional excursus) could be explained with reference to the changes in technology that occurred, which were accessible from the archaeological record.
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	BBC - History - Vere Gordon Childe (1892 - 1957)
		Vere Gordon Childe was born in north Sydney, Australia, on 14 April 1892, the son of an Anglican minister.
		Childe's scholarship was rooted in his unsurpassed knowledge of the archaeological evidence.
		Childe's thinking was infused by an interest in the politics of the left.
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	Chapter I
		Vere Gordon Childe was born in 1892 in Sydney, Australia, and, even though he did not gain a position in archaeology until 1927, he rose to become a noteworthy and important archaeologist in the world before his death in 1957.
		Childe worked toward these kinds of interpretations in his life, but his enduring contribution to archaeology will be in his synthesis and organization of knowledge, the pattern of prehistoric cultures in time and space, and the development of probable chronologies in relation to Europe.
		Childe was "sure the interpreter of a vast and complex mass of archaeological material in comprehensible form, and one of the most profound students of the problems of European prehistoric chronology within his chosen period.
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	VERE GORDON CHILDE : Encyclopedia Entry
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892–October 19, 1957) was an Australian philologist by training who later specialised in archaeology, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory.
		Childe’s original concept of the Aryans was inevitably influenced by the racist ideology of his time, but nevertheless it was different to the Nazis' crude Aryan supremacist ideas which he attacked strongly throughout the thirties.
		After leaving Edinburgh, Childe was appointed director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London for ten years, until his retirement in 1956.
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	Vere Gordan Childe
		Childe was a graduate of Sydney University and Oxford University and early in his career he was noted as the most influential archaeologist theorist of his generation.
		He was Librarian to the Royal Anthropological Institute beginning in 1925, held the honor of being appointed the first Abercomby Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at Edinburgh from 1927 to 1946 and Director of Archaeology at the University of London prior to his death.
		Vere Gordon Childe was a very accomplished man and he laid the foundation of the theory and methodology of archaeology in the
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		Childe had retired in advance of his time as Director of the Institute of Archaeology of the University of London, in order to simplify the task for his successor, who must move the Instititute to new quarters.
		Childe loved tangible evidence for interpretative purposes and the artifacts yielded this, although most clearly and comprehensively—for the time ranges and areas of his greatest concern— in the more material realms of culture.
		For archeology, as Wheeler writes, Childe "made the study of man as nearly a science as perhaps that wayward subject admits." It is doubtful whether a man of less than Childe's stature as a humanist could have achieved the same result.
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	Vere Gordon Childe Summary
		On April 14, 1892, V. Gordon Childe was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
		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.
		Childe was director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London from 1946 to 1956.
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	Vere Gordon Childe: biography and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892–October 19, 1957) was an Australian The Austronesian languages spoken by Australian aborigines
		After leaving Edinburgh, Childe was appointed director of the Institute of Archaeology The institute of archaeology is an academic department of university college london (ucl), in the united kingdom....
		Childe was unusual in emphasising the Hellenistic[Follow this hyperlink for a summary of this subject] period as the apex of Graeco-Roman Greco-roman refers to the culture of ancient greece and classical rome and reflects the essential unity of the mediterranean world at the time when those cultures flourished, between the 8th century bc...
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	The history and development of archaeology
		Childe was the first to attempt a synthesis of the data from prehistoric Europe, a huge feat and one that long dominated our undertsanding of the continent’s early development.
		Childe framed the beginnings of agriculture and urbanisation in terms of ‘revolutions’, drewing on the Marxist view of social, economic and technological development.
		The application of Culture History by Gordon Childe helped to move archaeological reasoning away from purely historical or anthropological modes of explanation, which had tended to be particularistic and illustrative or generalising and deterministic.
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	Vere Gordon Childe: bio and encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The neolithic revolution was a term first suggested by the australian archaeologist vere gordon childe as an explanation for the switch made by ancient peoples...
		Childe was born in 1892 in Sydney Sydney quick summary:
		Childe’s original concept of the Aryans was inevitably influenced by the racist ideology of his time, EHandler: no quick summary.
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	Vere Gordon Childe - Definition, explanation
		Vere Gordon Childe (April 14, 1892–October 19, 1957) was an Australian archaeologist, perhaps best known for his excavation of the unique Neolithic site of Skara Brae in Orkney and for his Marxist views which informed his thinking about prehistory.
		Childe was also an accomplished populiser: his two most widely read books What Happened in History (1942) and Man Makes Himself (1951) were readable accounts that brought archaeology to a wider audience and helped make him well known.
		Perhaps it was natural that, being an archaeologist with only the material artefacts of the past to inform him, he should be drawn to an overarching theory of history which explained everything as a result of the changes in the modes of production.
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	A vision splendid - Short Breaks - Travel - smh.com.au
		The house, designed on Swiss chalet lines, was built in 1898 for the Reverend Stephen Childe as a summer residence.
		There are now three separate units: the Charles Darwin Suite, the Gordon Childe Suite and the Paul Sorensen Suite - each paying tribute to figures from the history of the house and the mountains.
		(Vere Gordon Childe was a noted historian and archaeologist, and Sorensen the garden architect.)
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	Biography of Vere Gordon Childe \| Life of Vere Gordon Childe
		The Australian prehistorian and archeologist Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957) 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.On April 14, 1892, V. Gordon Childe was born in Sydney, New South Wales.
		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.Childe was director of the Institute of Archaeology at the University of London from 1946 to 1956.
		An assessment of his work is in Julian H. Steward, Theory of Culture Change (1955), and in Robert Redfield, The Characterizations of Civilizations (1956).Green, Sally, Prehistorian: a biography of V. Gordon Childe, Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker, 1981.
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	Flimsy whimsy of Hawke and Wran won't save Labor - theage.com.au
		There has always been tension within the ALP between its parliamentary representatives, whose objective is government, and the workers and branch members, whose objective is social and economic change expressed through the party machine.
		The process, and how those tensions are worked out, was brilliantly expressed in Vere Gordon Childe's 1923 classic How Labour Governs: a study of workers' representation in Australia.
		There is no evidence in the flimsy Hawke and Wran review that the authors have read it.
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	Amazon.com: The Archaeology of V. Gordon Childe : Contemporary Perspectives: Books: David R. Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		The contributors examine such persistent themes in Childe's thought as the nature of culture and the role of diffusion in cultural evolution and debate the question of whether Childe anticipated "processual archaeology" in his famous models of the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions.
		Also included are evaluations of Childe's early career in Australia, his relations with Soviet archaeology, including a previously unknown letter from Childe to Soviet archaeologists, and his impact on American archaeology.
		Vere Gordon Childe, although dead since 1957, remains the most renowned and widely read archaeologist of the 20th century.
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		Childe Vere Gordon - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Childe, Vere Gordon (1892-1957), Australian-born archaeologist who spent his working life in Britain and who was one of the most influential...
		In 1812 the publication of Cantos I and II of Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage made Byron famous.
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	What Happened In History, by Gordon Childe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Vere Gordon Childe, one of the greatest theorists and archaeological synthesists of his generation, was born in North Sydney, Australia, in April 1892.
		Gaining a first-class degree in Classics from the University of Sydney in 1913, Childe went on to Oxford where he read Greats.
		Childe's particular skill lay in bringing together great amounts of data for examining 'archaeological cultures', which he saw as recurring groupings of artefacts and structures - such as house types, pottery and burial rites - that defined distinct prehistoric human groups, or peoples.
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	Harris and Childe (1994) The archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-23)
		Harris and Childe (1994) The archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary perspectives
		The archaeology of V. Gordon Childe: Contemporary perspectives
		"Proceedings of the V. Gordon Childe Centennial Conference held at the Institute of Archaeology, University College, London, 8-9 May 1992 under the auspices of the Institute of Archaeology and the Prehistoric Society.".
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	RECENT THEORIES REGARDING THE ORIGINS OF SEDENTISM IN THE
		While Childe formulated his theory prior to the others his concentration on environmental determinism conforms to their trend.
		Kenyon was a follower of Childe in asserting the Oasis theory based on her work at Jerico where farming goes back to at least 7000 BC.
		Also, through multi-disciplinary research (botany, geology, zoology), Braidwood believed that he had established that the climatic crisis of Childe did not in fact occur, thus undermining the Oasis Theory.
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