2011/11/01 by Alice Stevenson · 1 citation
Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Archaeological Research and Protection #Statement (logic) #History #Classics #Philosophy #Epistemology
paper · doi:10.1017/s0003598x00062189
openalex publication_date 2011/11/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/22
In early 1988 my grandfather, Robert Barron Kerr Stevenson (1913—1992), former Keeper of the National Antiquities of Scotland, was asked about his recollections of his former teacher and colleague Vere Gordon Childe. “There is”, he wrote in reply, “very little that I can say of use to you”. The reason for such a statement seems to be that my grandfather felt that his contacts with Childe had never been concerned with the broad historical and philosophical concepts that scholars were so interested in, believing rather that his own academic perspectives were more from the “worm's eye than the bird's eye view”. Yet what my grandfather knew was a more personal side to Childe that does not come across in his published works.