Vere Gordon Childe B.Litt., F.S.A.

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Title:	Prof
First Name:	Vere
Middle Initials:	Gordon
Surname:	Childe
Post Nominals:	B.Litt., F.S.A.
Wikidata Identifier:	http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q154655
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Monographs:

Title	Author	Year of Publication
A Short Introduction to Archaeology	Author	1956
Ancient Dwellings at Skara Brae, Edinburgh	Author	1950
Foundations of social archaeology; selected writings of V. Gordon Childe	Editor, Author	2005
History	Author	1947
Illustrated Guide to Ancient Monuments in the ownership or guardianship of the Ministry of Works. Vol 6. Scotland	Author	1952
Piecing Together the Past	Author	1956
Prehistoric communities of the British Isles	Author	1947
Scotland	Author	1961
Scotland before the Scots	Author	1946
Skara Brae	Author	1983
The Bronze Age	Author	1930
The Prehistory of Scotland	Author	1935
The prehistory of European society	Author	1958

Articles/Chapters:

Title	Role	Year of Publication
(1)Carminnow Fort (2) Supplementary excavations at the vitrified fort of Finavon, Angus; and (3) Some Bronze Age Vessels from Angus	Author	1935
A Beaker Burial from Innerwick, East Lothian	Author	1938
A Bronze Worker's Anvil and other Tools recently acquired by the Inverness Museum, with a Note on another Scottish Anvil.	Author	1945
A Chronological Table of Prehistory	Author	1933
A Promontory Fort on the Antrim Coast	Author	1936
A Stone Age Settlement at the Braes of Rinyo, Rousay, Orkney. (Second Report)	Author	1946
A Stone-Age settlement at the Braes of Rinyo, Rousay, Orkney. (First Report.)	Author	1938
A round cairn near Achnamara, Loch Sween, Argyll	Author	1936
An unrecognized group of chambered cairns	Author	1943
Another late Viking house at Freswick, Caithness	Author	1942
Appendix: Bone dart-head from Carlisle.	Author	1952
Archaeological ages as technological stages. Huxley memorial lecture for 1944	Author	1944
Archaeology and anthropology	Author	1946
Archaeology as a social science. Inaugural lecture	Author	1947
Bronze Dagger of Mycenean Type from Pelynt, Cornwall	Author	1951
Chambered Cairns near Kilfinan, Argyll.	Author	1931
Changing Methods and Aims in Prehistory; Presidential Address for 1935	Author	1935
Cinerary urns from Kirk Ireton.	Author	1948
Comparative Notes on a series of Neolithic potsherds from Larne	Author	1932
Doonmore, a castle mound near Fair Head, co. Antrim	Author	1938
Double-looped palstaves in Britain	Author	1939
Excavation of a Neolithic barrow on Whiteleaf Hill, Bucks	Author	1954
Excavation of the Vitrified Fort of Finavon, Angus.	Author	1934
Excavations at Castlelaw Fort, Midlothian.	Author	1932
Excavations at Castlelaw, Midlothian, and the small forts of north Britain	Author	1933
Excavations carried out by H.M. Office of Works in the Bronze Age Levels at Jarlshof in 1937.	Author	1937
Excavations in Two Iron Age Forts at Earn's Heugh, near Coldingham.	Author	1931
Excavations in a Chambered Cairn at Kindrochat, near Comrie, Perthshire.	Author	1929
Final Report on the Excavation of the Stone Circle at Old Keig, Aberdeenshire.	Author	1933
Final Report on the Operations at Skara Brae. With a Report on Selected Animal Bones and a Report on Human Remains.	Author	1930
Further urns and cremation burials from Brackmont Mill, near Leuchars, Fife	Author	1941
Is Prehistory Practical?	Author	1933
Maes Howe	Author	1953
Megalithic tombs in Scotland and Ireland	Author	1957
Memoirs - James Curle and Arthur J. H. Edwards	Author	1943
Model of the chambered cairn, `Egmond's Howe'	Author	1953
Newly-discovered short cist burials with beakers	Author	1943
Note on a bronze dagger found at Hungry Bentley.	Author	1941
Notes on Excavations in England, Scotland and Wales in 1933	Author	1932
Notes on some Duns in Islay.	Author	1934
Notes: (1) A Hoard of Bronzes from Ballymore, Cowal, Argyll.	Author	1942
Notes: (1) Prehistoric Ceareals from Scotland.	Author	1944
Notes: (2) An Unusual Cinerary Urn from Droughdool, near Dunragit, Wigtownshire.	Author	1944
Notes: (5) An Encrusted Urn from Aberlemno, Angus.	Author	1942
Notes: (6) Examination of the Prehistoric Fort on Cairngryfe Hill, near Lanark.	Author	1940
Notes: (6) The Bronze Blade from Craigscorry, near Beauly.	Author	1943
On the causes of grey and black coloration in prehistoric pottery	Author	1937
Operations at Skara Brae during 1929.	Author	1929
Prehistory and Marxism	Author	1979
Provisional Report on the Excavations at Skara Brae, and on Finds from the 1927 and 1928 Campaigns. With a Report on Bones.	Author	1928
Re-Excavation of the Chambered Cairn of Quoyness, Sanday, on behalf of the Ministry of Works, 1951-2 Notes by WELLS, L H and ZEUNER, F E	Author	1951
Rock Scribings at Hawthornden, Midlothian	Author	1938
Scottish Megalithic Tombs and their affinities	Author	1935
Scottish Tracked Stones and their significance	Author	1936
Some notable prehistoric and medieval monuments recently exmined by the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland	Author	1942
Some sherds from Slieve na Caillighe	Author	1935
The Antiquity of the British Bronze Age	Author	1939
The Battle-axe as a possible link between Sumeria and Northern Europe.	Author	1926
The Chambered Long Cairn at Kindrochat, near Comrie, Perthshire.	Author	1930
The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery	Author	1931
The Danish neolithic pottery from the coast of Durham	Author	1932
The Evolution of Society	Author	1957
The Experimental Production of the Phenomena Distinctive of Virtified Forts.	Author	1937
The Knowe of Lairo, Rousay, Orkney	Author	1942
The Vitrified Fort at Rahoy, Morvern, Argyll.	Author	1937
The defences of Kaimes hill-fort, Midlothian	Author	1940
The final Bronze Age in the Near East and in temperate Europe	Author	1948
Trial Excavations at the Old Keig Stone circle, Aberdeenshire.	Author	1932
University of London, Institute of Archaeology	Author	1950
Valediction	Author	1958