Vere Gordon Childe

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
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gptkbp:almaMater gptkb:University_of_Oxford
gptkb:University_of_Sydney
gptkbp:birthDate 1892-04-14
gptkbp:birthPlace gptkb:Sydney,_Australia
gptkbp:causeOfDeath suicide
gptkbp:children none
gptkbp:citizenship gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:deathDate 1957-10-19
gptkbp:deathPlace gptkb:Mount_Victoria,_New_South_Wales,_Australia
gptkbp:editor gptkb:Proceedings_of_the_Prehistoric_Society
gptkbp:fieldOfWork gptkb:archaeological_site
prehistory
European prehistory
gptkbp:honor gptkb:Fellow_of_the_British_Academy
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Vere Gordon Childe
gptkbp:influenced gptkb:Colin_Renfrew
gptkb:David_Clarke
gptkbp:influencedBy Marxism
gptkbp:knownFor synthesizing European prehistory
theory of social evolution in prehistory
popularizing the concept of the Neolithic and Urban Revolutions
gptkbp:language English
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gptkbp:notableWork gptkb:Social_Evolution
gptkb:Man_Makes_Himself
gptkb:The_Dawn_of_European_Civilization
gptkb:The_Aryans:_A_Study_of_Indo-European_Origins
What Happened in History
gptkbp:occupation gptkb:archaeologist
gptkb:historian
gptkb:linguist
gptkbp:political_position socialism
Marxism
gptkbp:positionHeld Abercromby Professor of Archaeology, University of Edinburgh
Director, Institute of Archaeology, University of London
gptkbp:religion atheism
gptkbp:residence gptkb:Australia
gptkb:United_Kingdom
gptkbp:spouse none
gptkbp:theory gptkb:Neolithic_Revolution
gptkb:Urban_Revolution
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gptkb:Gordon_Childe
gptkb:Oscar_Montelius
gptkb:Institute_of_Archaeology,_UCL
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