Gordon Childe Author

Gordon Childe (1892-1957) was born in Sydney and moved to England to study classical archaeology at Oxford. He taught at the University of Edinburgh and led the excavation of the famous 5,000-year-old Neolithic village at Skara Brae in Orkney. In 1946, he was appointed director and professor of European prehistory at the Institute of Archaeology in London, where he remained until his retirement in 1956. A prolific author, his other books include The Dawn of European Civilisation, The Danube in Prehistory and Man Makes Himself.