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The Use of Migration as an Explanatory Concept in Archaeology

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Vere Gordon Childe (1892-1957)

Childe was born in Australia and graduated from Sydney University in 1913. In 1916 he graduated from Queen's College, Oxford. After a brief foray into labour politics in Australia, he returned to Europe and became the first Abercromby Professor of archaeology at Edinburgh University. A prolific writer and also a field archaeologist, Childe is credited with coining the terms 'Neolithic Revolution' and 'Urban Revolution.' A promiment culture historian with a Marxist bent, Childe's work is still known today. A primary contribution of his to migration studies was the combination of Gustaf

V. Gordon Childe in 1955. link to source

Selected Relevant Works:
CHILDE, V. GORDON. 1925. The dawn of European civilization. London: Routledge
and Kegan Paul.
CHILDE, V. GORDON. 1926. The Aryans: A study of Indo-European Origins. New
York: A.A. Knopf
CHILDE, V. GORDON. 1926. 100. Traces of the Aryans on the Middle Danube. Man, 26:
153-154
CHILDE, V. GORDON. 1928. 140. The Origin of Some Hallstatt Types. Man, 28: 191-
193

Sources:
TRIGGER, B. G. 1999. "Vere Gordon Childe," in Encyclopedia of archaeologists: The great arhaeologists volume 1. Edited by Tim Murray. Santa Barbara: ABC-CLIO.

Kossina's archaeological cultures and Oscar Montelius' diffusion to identify and explain the spread of farming, what Childe called the 'Neolithic Revolution.' In many of his writings he employed migration as the method of cultural diffusion and an explanation for change.