TY - BOOK AU - Childe, V Gordon TI - SOCIAL EVOLUTION SN - 9789350024683 U1 - 573.3 PY - 2017////01/01 CY - Delhi PB - Aakar KW - Prehistoric peoples KW - Social evolution KW - Social change KW - Anthropology, Prehistoric KW - Archaeology KW - Childe, V. Gordon (Vere Gordon), 1892-1957 N1 - Social Evolution was Gordon Childes last major work. It deals with the social evolution of the human race, and, rather than saying that ancient civilisations were logic in their evolution of Sociology. V. Gordon Childe was a remarkable man who is considered the father of modern archaeology who specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist, Childe accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and was an early, though unorthodox, proponent of Marxist archaeology. Childe was the author of several well-known books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory, most notably Man Makes Himself and What Happened in History; Contents 1.Evolutionary Theory in Ethnography 2.The Classification of Societies in Archaeology 3.Culture in Archaeology and Anthropology 4.Some Examples 5.The Sociological Interpretation of Archaeological Data 6.Culture Sequences in Savagery 7.Culture Sequences in Barbarism : (i) Temperate Europe 8.Culture Sequences in Europe 9.Culture Sequences in Barbarism : (2) The Mediterranean Zone 10.Culture Sequences in Barbarism : (3) The Nile Valley 11.Culture Sequences in Barbarism : (4) Mesopotamia 12.Conclusions Index ER -