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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came" is a narrative poem by English author Robert Browning, written on 2 January 1852, and first published in 1855 in...
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History of cities (section Childe’s ten criteria)
activity appears necessary before true cities can form. According to Vere Gordon Childe, for a settlement to qualify as a city, it must have enough surplus...
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entertainer James Warren Childe, English painter Vere Gordon Childe, Australian philologist and archaeologist Wilfred Rowland Childe, British poet and critic...
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