biography
| name: |
Childe, (Vere) Gordon
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pronunciation:
[chiyld]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1892–1957)
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| biography:
| Archaeologist, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He studied at Sydney and Oxford universities, and his early books, notably The Dawn of European Civilisation (1925), and The Most Ancient Near East (1928), established him as the most influential archaeological theorist of his generation. He was professor of archaeology at Edinburgh (1927–46) and director of the University of London Institute of Archaeology (1946–56). He returned to Australia on retirement, where he committed suicide. |
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