New Light on the Most Ancient East

by Vere Gordon Childe

CHILDE, V. NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST. THE ORIENTAL PRELUDE TO EUROPEAN PREHISTORY [1953, REPRINT]. , 1953, 255 p. +laminas fuera texto.Encuadernacion original. Nuevo.

Genres: History

280 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1934

About the author

Vere Gordon Childe, better known as V. Gordon Childe, was an Australian archaeologist and philologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist, Childe accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and was an early, though unorthodox, proponent of Marxist archaeology. Childe worked for most of his life as an academic in the United Kingdom, initially at the University of Edinburgh, and later at the Institute of Archaeology, London. He also wrote a number of groundbreaking books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory, most notably Man Makes Himself (1936) and What Happened in History (1942).

Reviews

[Mer Less]

despite being a very old publication, still stand for itself and better, and clearly express all the ideas and communicates the ancient East (well whatever means in modern terms) simply in comparison to many modern versions.