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V. Gordon Childe and the vocabulary of revolutionary change

1999/03/01 by Kevin Greene · 48 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Social Sciences · #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies #Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies #Terminology #Analogy #Vocabulary #History #Ancient history #Linguistics #Philosophy

paper · pdf · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00087871

published in Antiquity 73(279), 97-109 (Cambridge University Press)

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Abstract

Because Childe wrote extensively for non-archaeologists and the public his Neolithic and Urban Revolutions have continued to influence historians in general — and historians of technology in particular — into the 1990s. This paper examines their influence, while noting significant changes in Childe's terminology and use of analogy between 1928 and 1957.

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