Vere Gordon Childe
Australian archaeologist · Australia · On the map · Academics · Lived 1892 to 1957 · aged 65
Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career.
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From 1919 to 1921, Childe worked for the leftist politician John Storey as his personal assistant.
Neolithic dwellings at Skara Brae in Orkney, the site excavated by Childe 1927-30
The Neolithic passage tomb of Maes Howe on Mainland, Orkney, excavated by Childe 1954-55
A view of Grose Valley from Govetts Leap, the site where Childe chose to end his life![The bronze bust of Childe by Marjorie Maitland Howard[188] has been kept in the library of the Institute of Archaeology since 1958.[189] Childe thought it made him look like a Neanderthal.[190]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Bust_of_V._Gordon_Childe.jpg/1280px-Bust_of_V._Gordon_Childe.jpg)
The bronze bust of Childe by Marjorie Maitland Howard[188] has been kept in the library of the Institute of Archaeology since 1958.[189] Childe thought it made him look like a Neanderthal.[190]Awards
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Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world.
