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List of works by Vere Gordon Childe

A CONTRIBUTION TO THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF NORTHEAST GREENLAND. By Søren Richter (Skrifter om Svalbard og Ishavs-undersøkelser, no. 63). Oslo (Det kong. Departement for Handel, Sjofart, Industri, Handverk og Fiskeri), 1934. pp. 149. 25 kr

A SUMERIAN PALACE AND THE ‘A’ CEMETERY AT KISH, MESOPOTAMIA. By Ernest Mackay. Field Museum Anthropological Memoirs, vol. I, no. 2. Chicago, 1929. pp. 143 with 42 plates. $3.50

article by Vere Gordon Childe published September 1930 in Antiquity

AEGYPTIACA: a Catalogue of Egyptian Objects in the Aegean Area. By J. D. S. Pendlebury. Cambridge University Press, 1930. pp. 116, with 5 plates and map. 15s

AN INTRODUCTION TO THE STUDY OF INDIAN HISTORY. By Damodar Dharmanand Kosambi, pp. xix + 324 + 32 plates and I map; Bombay: Popular Book Depot, 1956. Rs. 18

ANAIS. Volume IV, Academia Portuguesa da História, Publicaçoes comemorativas do duplo Centenário da Fundaçao e Restauaçao de Portugal. Lisbon, 1941. pp. 140 and 52 plates

scientific article

ANATOLIA THROUGH THE AGES: DISCOVERIES AT THE ALISHAR MOUND, 1927–29. By Erich Schmidt. Oriental Institute of Chicago Communications, no. 11, 1931. pp. 165. 2 dollars

ARCHAEOLOGY AND SOCIETY. By Grahame Clark. pp. XIV, 220, with 24 plates. Methuen, 1939. 7s 6d

ARCHEOLOGICKÉ ROZHLEDY. Ročnik II, Sešit 1–2, 1950, pp. 152. Praha I, Břehova 7, Prehistorický Ustav

ASINE: RESULTS OF THE SWEDISH EXCAVATIONS 1922–1930. By Otto Frödin and Axel W. Persson Stockholm (Generalstabens Litografiska Anstalt), 1938. pp. 452. 52 kr

article by Vere Gordon Childe published September 1939 in Antiquity

ATTI DEL 1°. CONGRESSO INTERNAZIONALE DI PREISTORIA E PROTOISTORIA MEDITERRANEA, 1950. Florence, 1953, pp. 560

Aujaran di Kahani(Transl. Sushil Kumar)

Punjabi translation of the Story of Tools by Gorden Childe

BEFORE PHILOSOPHY, by H. and Mrs. Frankfort, J. A. Wilson and T. Jacobsen. pp. 275 Pelican A 198, London, 1949. Is 6d

BEITRÄGE ZUR VOR- UND FRÜHGESCHICHTE BÖHMENS. By Leonhard Franz (Mitt. d. deutschen Ges. d. Wissenschaften u. Künste f.d. tschechoslowakische Republik in Prag, N.F., I). Prag, 1935. pp. 83 and XXXIV plates

BRONZEZEITLICHE UND FRÜHEISENZEITLICHE CHRONOLOGIE. II, HALLSTATTZEIT. By Nils Åberg. Stockholm: Im Verlag der Akedemie, 1931. pp. 109 and 225 figs. 20 kr

BRONZEZEITLICHE UND FRÜHEISENZEITLICHE CHRONOLOGIE. Teil v, MITTELEUROPÄISCHE HOCHBRONZEZEIT. By Nils Åberg. pp. 162, Stockholm, 1935. 25 kr

CLIMATE AND THE ENERGY OF NATIONS. By S. F. Markha Oxford University Press, 1942. pp. 144. 10s 6d

Ceramic Art in Early Iran

book review published in 1942

DANSKE OLDSAGER, II, YNGRE STENALDER. By P. V. Glob. 139 pp. +72 plates. København (Gyldendalske Boghandel) 1952

DER DONAULÄNDISCHE UND DER WESTISCHE KULTURKREIS DER JÜNGEREN STEINZEIT (Handbuch der Urgeschichte Deutschlands, 2). By Werner Buttler. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 1938. pp. 108, 24 plates, 5 maps.RM. 6.80 (5.80 unbound)

DER OSTSKANDINAVISCHE NORDEN WÄHREND DER ÄLTESTEN METALLZEIT EUROPAS (Skrifter utgivna av Kungl. Human. Vetenskapssamfundet i Lund, XXII). By J. E. Forssander. Lund, 1936. pp. 296 and 80 plates

DIE BANDKERAMISCHE ANSIEDLUNG BEI KÖLN-LINDENTHAL. By Werner Buttler and Waldemar Haberer (Römisch-germanische Forschungen, 11). pp. 178, 83 plates, 2 plans. Berlin, Walter de Gruyter, 1936. 2 vols

DIE FELSBILDER VON YAZILIKAYA. By Kurt Bittel. (Istanbuler Forschungen, herausgegeben von der Abteilung Istanbul des archäologischen Institutes des deutschen Reiches, 5). Bamberg, 1934. pp. 11 and 31 plates. 10 marks

DIE FRÜHKRETISCHEN SIEGEL: eine Untersuchung über das Werden des Minoischen Stiles. By Friedrich Matz. Berlin: Walter der Gruyter. 1928. pp. xvi, 278 and 26 plates

DIE JÜNGERE STEINZEIT DER SCHWEIZ. By Hans Reinerth. Benno Filser, Augsburg. 1926. pp. 288, 95 figs., 8 maps, 30 marks.URGESCHICHTE DER SCHWEIZ. By O. Tschumi. Von Huber & Co., Frauenfeld. pp. 192, 20 plates, 6 figs

DIE KULTUR DER BRONZEZEIT IN SÜDDEUTSCHLAND. Von Dr Georg Kraft. Benno Filser, Augsberg. 1926. pp. 153 and 58 plates. 35 R marks

DIE PFAHLBAUTEN DES BIELERSEES. By Th. Ischer. Biel (Verlag des Heimatkundekommission Seeland). 1928. pp. 240 and 20 plates. 10s

DIE SCHWEDISCHE BOOTAXTKULTUR UND IHRE KONTINENTALEUROPÄISCHEN VORAUSSETZUNGEN. By J.-E. Forssander. Lund: Borelius, 1933. pp. VI, 251, with 36 plates. 10 kroner

DIE STEIN-UND KUPFERZEIT SIEBENBÜRGENS. By Hermann Schroller. Vorgeschichtliche Forschungen 8. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 79 and 55 plates. 1933

article published in 1935

EURASIA SEPTENTRIONALIS ANTIQUA: Journal for East European and North Asiatic Archaeology and Ethnography. Edited for the Finnish Archaeological Society by U. T. Sirelius and A. M. Tallgren. Vols. I-III

EXCAVATIONS AT HARAPPA: being an account of Archaeological Excavations carried out at Harappa between the years 1920–1 and 1933–4. By Madhu Sarup Vats. Delhi (Manager of Publications), 1940. pp. XV, 488, and 139 plates. £3 17s

EXCAVATIONS IN MESOPOTAMIA AND WESTERN IRAN: Sites of 4000-500 B. C. Graphic Analyses by Henry Ware Eliot Jr., Art Work, by Theresa Garrett Eliot. Special Publication of the Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass., 1950

Early Man in North-East Yorkshire

scientific article published in Nature

Environment, Tools and Man: An Inaugural Lecture, by Garrod D. A. E.. Cambridge, 1946

Excavations at Star Carr. An Early Mesolithic site at Seamer, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, by Clark J. G. D., with chapters by Walker D. and Godwin H., Fraser F. C. and King J. E. and an appendix by Moore John W., pp. XXIII + 200, 80 figs., XXIV pls.

FAHREN UND REITEN IN ALTEUROPA UND IM ALTEN ORIENT. By Joseph Wiesner. (Der Alte Orient, band 38, heft 2–4). Leipzig, 1939. pp. 92 and 8 plates. 5.25 marks

FESTSCHRIFT FÜR PETER GOESSLER: Tübinger Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte, 194 pp., 25 plates. W. Kohlhammer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1954

FESTSCHRIFT; publication d'hommage offerte au P. W. Schmidt; edited by W. Koppers. Pp. 977 with 41 plates, 2 maps and 158 text figures. Vienna, 1928

FRUHBRONZEZEITLICHE KULTUREN IN UNGARN. By Pal Von Patay. (Dissertationes Pannonicae ex Instituto numismatico et archaeologico Universitatis de Petro Pázmány nominatae Budapestinensis provenientes, 2nd ser. no. 13). Buda Pest, 1938. pp. 118, 13 pla

FURTHER EXCAVATIONS AT MOHENJO-DARO: being an official account of Archaeological Excavations at Mohenjo-daro carried out by the Government of India between the years 1927 and 1931. By E. J. H. Mackay Delhi, 1938. 2 vols. pp. XVI, 718, and 146 plates.

Fouilles de Sialk Près de Kashan 1933, 1934, 1937, by R. Ghirshman. Musée du Louvre, Dept. des Antiquités orientales, Serie archéologique IV. pp. 152, pl. XCVI . Paris, 1938.

GAMLE GÅRDSANLEGG I ROGALAND (Fortsettelse). By Jan Petersen. Oslo: Instituttet for sammenlignende Kulturforskning, 1936. pp. 100 and 65 plates. 15 N. kr

Gli Scavi Nella Caverna Delle Arene Candide: I, Gli Strati Con Ceramiche, by Brea Luigi Bernabo. pp. 364, pls. LXVIII. Bordighera (Istituto di Studi Liguri), 1946

HAFFKÜSTENKULTUR UND URSPRUNG DER BALTEN. By –. Kilian. Habelt, Bonn, 1955. DM. 42

IRAN IN THE ANCIENT EAST: Archaeological Studies presented in the Lowell Lectures at Boston. By Ernst Herzfeld. New York and London, Oxford University Press, 1941. pp. VII, 363, and 131 plates. £12 12s

Indo-European Languages and Archaeology. By Hugh Hencken. 9½ × 6¼. Pp. vi + 68. Memoir No. 84 published by the American Anthropological Association, 1955

Iran. By R. Ghirshman. 7¼×4¼. Pp. 368. Pelican A 239. London: Penguin Books, 1954. 5s

JUNGSTEINZEIT-SIEDLUNGEN IN FEDERSEEMOOR. By R. R. Schmidt. PartsI andII (to be completed in 3 parts). Stuttgart: Ferdinand Enke Verlag, 1930–1936. Price in Germany, Switzerland, Palestine, 50 marks; elsewhere, 62.50

article

KANSU MORTUARY URNS OF THE PAN SHAN AND MA CH'ANG GROUPS. Palaeontologia Sinica. Series D, III, fasc. i. By Nils Palmgren. Peiping, 1934. pp. 204 and 41 plates. Price not stated

KELTSKI OPPIDUM ŽIDOVAR. By B. Branko Gavela. 62 pp., Serbian text in Roman characters, 6 pp. french resume, and 58 plates. Univerzitets u Beogradu, 1952

article

KHIROKITIA: Final Report on the Excavation of a Neolithic Settlement in Cyprus on behalf of the Department of Antiquities, 1936–1946, by Porphyrios Dikaios, pp. 447 +CLII plates; Geoffrey Cumberlege, Oxford Universtiy Press, 1953. £8 8s od

Review article

KLEINFUNDE AUS DEN ARCHÄISCHEN TEMPELSCHICHTEN IN URUK. By Ernst Heinrich. (Ausgrabung der Deutschen Forschungsgemeinschaft in Uruk-Warka, Band 1), Berlin, 1936. pp. 54, 38 pls

KULTURA NASELENIYA GORNOGO ALTAYA V SKIFSKOE VREMYA* By S. I. Rudenko, pp. 402+120 plates (31 in colour) Izd. Akademii Nauk, Moscow-Leningrad, 1953. R 30. 65

LIFE AND WORK IN PREHISTORIC TIMES. By G. Renard. Kegan Paul (History of Civilization). pp. VIII, 228, with 24 illus. 1929. 12s 6d

LURISTAN BRONZES IN THE UNIVERSITY MUSEUM. By L. Legrain, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, (London : Oxford University Press), 1934. pp. 20 and 25 plates. 8s 6d

La Bohême préhistorique. 1. L'Âge de pierre. By Albín Stocký. 12 × 8½. Pp. x + 220 with 122 plates and 6 maps. Prague, 1929

Les Tertres funéraires préhistoriques dans la Forêt de Haguenau. Par A. E. Schaeffer 10¾ × 7¾.I. Les Tumulus de l'Âge du Bronze. Pp. xii + 279.II. Les Tumulus de l'Âge du Fer. Pp. xi + 322. Haguenau: Imprimerie de la Ville, 1926, 1930

MARBURGER STUDIEN, herausgegeben von Ernst Sprockhoff. pp. VIII, 267 and 122 plates. Darmstadt: L. C. Wittich Verlag, 1938

MATHEMATICS FOR THE MILLION: a popular self-educator. By Lancelot Hogben. George Allen and Unwin, 1936. pp. 647 and over 200 illus. 12s 6d

MINNS VOLUME: EURASIA SEPTENTRIONALIS ANTIQUA IX. Helsinki, 1934. (London agents, Luzac). pp. 410. 30s

MUSÉE ARCHÉOLOGIQUE LIÈGEOIS: catalogue sommaire de la section préhistorique By J. Servais and J. Hamal-Nandrin. Liège, 1929. pp. 148

NECROLYNTHIA : a Study in Greek Burial Customs and Anthropology (Excavations at Olynthus, part XI). By David M. Robinson. (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Archaeology, no. 32). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press: London: Humphrey Milford. 1942. p

scholarly book review

NOTES ON THE PREHISTORIC METALLURGY OF COPPER AND BRONZE IN THE OLD WORLD. By H. H. Coghlan, Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, Occasional Papers on Technology, No. 4. 1951. 15s

New light on the most ancient East

written work by V. Gordon Childe

POTTERY FROM THE DIYALA REGION. By Pinhas Delougaz (The University of Chicago, Oriental Institute Publications, vol. LXIII). XXII+182 pp. +204 plates, Chicago 1952

PREHISTORY. By A. Vayson de Pradenne, translated by Ernest F. Row. London: Harrap, 1940. pp. 240. 6s

PRÄHISTORISCHE FLACHGRÄBER BEI GEMEINLEBARN IN NIEDERÖSTERREICH (RÖMISCH-GERMANISCHE FORSCHUNGEN, Band 3). By Josef Szombathy. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. 1929. pp. 78, 26 plates. 18 marks

PRÄHISTORISCHE FORSCHUNGEN IN KLEINASIEN (Istanbuler Forschungen, 6). By Kurt Bittel. Istanbul, 1934. pp. 145 and 22 plates. 13.50 marks

Piecing Together the Past: The Interpretation of Archeological Data

book published in 1956

Prehistoric Europe: the Economic Basis. By J. G. D. Clark. Pp. 349 + xvi plates, London (Methuen), 1952. 60s

Prehistoric Sussex. By E. Cecil Curwen, M.A., M.B. 8½ × 5½. Pp. xiv + 172. London: The Homeland Association, 1929. 10s. 6d

Progress and Archaeology

book published in 1944

RELATIVE CHRONOLOGIES IN OLD WORLD ARCHAEOLOGY. Edited by Robert W. Ehrich pp. 154. University of Chicago Press, 1954. (Cambridge U.P. 19s.)

REPORT ON THE EXCAVATION OF THE “A” CEMETERY AT KISH, MESOPOTAMIA. By Ernest Mackay. Field Museum of Natural History, Anthropology Memoirs, Vol I, no. 1. Chicago, 1925. pp. 61, and 20 plates

article by Vere Gordon Childe published March 1927 in Antiquity

SARDINIAN STUDIES. By Members of the Le Play Society. Published by the Society 1938. pp. 60 and 12 plates. 2s

SOVIETSKAYA ARCHEOLOGIYA. No. 1 (Akademiya Nauk USSR: Institut Antropologiĭ, archeologiĭ i Yetnografiĭ, Moscow and Leningrad. 1936. pp. 305

STENÅLDERS BQPLATSEN VID VIVASTEMALA, VÄSTRUMS SOCKEN, SMÅLAND. (Stone Age dwelling places at Vivastemlila). By Axel Bagge K. Vitterhets, Hist. och Antikvitets Akad. Handlingar 57, 7. pp. 58. Stockholm, 1941. 4 kroner

Social evolution

written work by V. Gordon Childe

TELL HASSUNA: excavations conducted by the Iraq Government Directorate General of Antiquities in 1943 and 1944, by Seton Lloyd and Fuad Safar, with prefatory remarks by Robert J. Braidwood. Reprinted from the Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1945, pp

article by V. G. C. published June 1946 in Antiquity

THE AGE OF THE GODS: a Study in the Origins of Culture in prehistoric Europe and the Ancient East. By Christopher Dawson. John Murray. 1928. pp. 466, 3 plates. 18s

article

THE BIRTH OF CIVILIZATION IN THE NEAR EAST. By Henri Frankfort. 116 pages, 24 plates. Willams & Norgate, 1951 16s

THE CIVILISATION OF GREECE IN THE BRONZE AGE. By H. R. Hall. London: Methuen 1928. pp. xxxii, 302, and 2 maps. 30s

THE CREATIVE CENTURIES: A STUDY IN HISTORICAL DEVELOPMENT. By Randall Henry John. pp. XXX, 410. London (Longmans), 1944. 17s 6d

article

THE EARLY IRON AGE IN ITALY: A Study of those Aspects of the early Civilization which are neither Villanovan nor Etruscan. By David Randall-MacIver. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1927. 84s

article

THE EXCAVATION OF TELL BEIT MIRSIM. II. THE BRONZE AGE. By W. F. Albright. Annual of the American Schools of Oriental Research,XVII. New Haven, 1938. pp. 96 and 56 plates

article by Vere Gordon Childe published September 1940 in Antiquity

THE NEAR EAST AND THE FOUNDATIONS FOR CIVILIZATION. By Robert J. Braidwood. Condon Lecutres. Oregon State System of Higher Education, Eugene, Oregon, 1952. 1.00 dollar

TRANSACTIONS OF THE II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE ASSOCIATION ON THE STUDY OF THE QUATERNARY PERIOD IN EUROPE. Fasc. V. Scientific, Technical, Geological and Prospecting Editorial Office, Leningrad-Moscow, 1935. pp. 390. 3 dollars.PALEOLIT SSSR.

TROY III: THE SIXTH SETTLEMENT. By Carl W. Blegen, John L. Caskey and Marion Rawson. Princeton University Press (London: Geoffrey Cumberlege) 1953. £14 8s

TROY, VOL. II. The Third, Fourth and Fifth Settlements, by Carl W. Blegen, John L. Caskey, Marion Rawson. Part I, XXII, 326 pages; Part II, 315 figs

TROY: GENERAL INTRODUCTION; THE FIRST AND SECOND SETTLEMENTS, by Carl W. Belgen, John L. Caskey, Marion Rawson, Jerome Sperling. Princetown University Two parts, XXVII + 396 pp., text, 471 figures. Princetown University Press (London, Geoffrey Cumber

The Archaeology of Cornwall and Scilly. By H. O'Neill Hencken. 7½ × 4¾. Pp. xvii + 340. (The County Archaeologies.) London: Methuen, 1932. 10s. 6d

The Archaeology of the Channel Islands: II. The Bailiwick of Jersey. By Jacquetta Hawkes. 10 × 7¼. Pp. xviii + 320. Jersey, Société Jersiaise, n.d. 25s

The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins

book by V. Gordon Childe

The Collected Papers of Henry Bradley, with a Memoir by Robert Bridges. Oxford University Press. 1928. pp. X, 296. A zöldhalompusztai szkíta lelet = La trouvaille scythe Zöldhalompuszta près de Miskolc, Hongrie. By N. Fettich

scientific article

The Danube in Prehistory

book published in 1929

The Dawn of European Civilization

book published in 1925

The History of Civilization

book review published in 1941

The Neolithic Period in Bulgaria, by Gaul James Harvey. Bulletin no. 16 of the American School of Prehistoric Research, pp. 259, pls. LXIX. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1948

The Prehistoric Archaeology of Northwest Africa. By Frederick R. Wulsin (Papers of the Peabody Museum, vol. xix, no. 1). Cambridge, Mass., 1941. $3.00

article

The Prehistory of Scotland

book published in 1935

UGARITICA: ÉTUDES RELATIVES AUX DÉCOUVERTES DE RAS SHAMRA (Mission de Ras Shamra, tome III). By Claude F. A. Schaeffer. Paris: Geuthner, 1939. pp. 325 and 32 plates. 200 francs

URGESCHICHTE DER NAHRUNG. By Oswald Menghin. Reprinted from the Lexikon der Ernährungskunde, pp. 1024-47. Julius Springer, Vienna. 1926

article

URGESCHICHTE KAUKASIENS von den Anfängen seiner Besiedlung bis in die Zeit seiner frühen Metallurgie. By Franz Hančar, Vienna; Anton Schroll and Co., 1937, pp. 448 and 56 plates.RM. 36

VORGESCHICHTE VON DEUTSCHLAND. By Carl Schuchhardt. R. Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich. 1928 pp. viii, 347, and 285 illustrations

VORGESCHICHTLICHE KULTURKREISE IN EUROPA: Bilderatlas mit erläuterndem Text. By Nils Åberg. Copenhagen: Levin and Munksgaard, 1936. pp. 80 and 55 plates. 29 Danish crowns

Weltgeschichte der Steinzeit. Von Oswald Menghin. 10 × 7. Pp. xvi + 648. Vienna, Anton Schroll, 1931. 36 RM

What happened in history / V. Gordon Childe

written work by V. Gordon Childe

What happened in history / V. Gordon Childe. - 1946

book

ZAGADNIENIE GROBOWCÓW KUJAWSKICH W ŚWIETLE OSTATNICH BADAŃ, by Waldemar Chmielewski, Biblioteka Muzeum Archeologicznego w Lodżi, Nr. 2, Lodż, 1952, 98 pp., résumés in Russian and French. 50 zl

article

ZAKLÁDY HALLSTATTSKÉ PERIODY V ČECHÁCH (The Dawn of the Hallstatt Period in Bohemia). By Jaroslav Böhm. Praha, 1937. pp. 299

ZUR URGESCHICHTE DER KELTEN UND ILLYRIER. By Julius Pokorny (reprinted from Zeitschrift für keltische Philologie, xx (1936), pp. 315–352, 489–522 and XXI (1938), 55–166, with annex, Die Urnenfelderkultur und ihre Bedeutung für die europäisch

ZUR ÄLTEREN NORDISCHEN BRONZEZEIT (Veröffentlichungen der schleswig-holsteinischen Universitätsgesellschaft, Reihe II, 3). By Karl Kersten. Neumünster; Karl Wachholtz Verlag. pp. 176 and 61 plates. 18 RM

‘25 Jahre Urgeschichtsforschung in Ungarn, 1912–36,’ by F. von Tompa. Ber. Rom.-Germ. K. , 24, 25 pp. 27–127.

Člověk svým tvůrcem

book edition published in 1949