Aryans

The Aryans; A Study of Indo-European Origins

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Second printing [stated]. xiii, [1], 221[1] pages. Illustrations. Bibliographical Note. Index. Ink notation on DJ rear flap. This is one of The History of Civilization series. Vere Gordon Childe (14 April 1892 - 19 October 1957) was an Australian archaeologist who specialized in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London, and wrote twenty-six books during his career. He was an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology. One of the best-known and most widely cited archaeologists of the twentieth century, Childe became known as the "great synthesizer" for his work integrating regional research with a broader picture of Near Eastern and European prehistory. He was also renowned for his emphasis on the role of revolutionary technological and economic developments in human society, such as the Neolithic Revolution and the Urban Revolution. In 1926 he published The Aryans: A Study of Indo-European Origins, exploring the theory that civilization diffused northward and westward into Europe from the Near East via an Indo-European linguistic group known as the Aryans; with the ensuing racial use of the term "Aryan" by the German Nazi Party, Childe avoided mention of the book. In his works, Childe accepted a moderate version of diffusionism, the idea that cultural developments diffuse from one place to others, rather than being independently developed in many places. In contrast to the hyper-diffusionism of Grafton Elliot Smith, Childe suggested that although most cultural traits spread from one society to another, it was possible for the same traits to develop independently in different places. Artikel-Nr. 77701

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