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Classic account of “the neolithic revolution”: the transition from hunter gatherers to agricultural settlement and the birth of civilisation.
First published in 1942, this is a classic account of early human history. Archaeologist and historian Gordon Childe charts the momentous shift from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, the development of the first towns and cities in Mesopotamia and the spectacular rise and fall of Graeco-Roman civilisation. Childe was one of the first scholars to...
First published in 1942, this is a classic account of early human history. Archaeologist and historian Gordon Childe charts the momentous shift from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, the development of the first towns and cities in Mesopotamia and the spectacular rise and fall of Graeco-Roman civilisation. Childe was one of the first scholars to...