New Light on the Most Ancient East

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NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST
By V. Gordon Childe
In NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST, one of the most celebrated archeologlsts of our time achieves what Clyde Kluckhohn In the Saturday Review has described as "the single outstanding example of a book of wide scope for a general audience by an eminent practising archeologist." For in this book, the recent startling archeological discoveries in the Near East are for the first time made meaningful and exciting to the general public as well as the scholar, filling in many rich details and bringing the picture of man's earliest beginnings into much sharper focus.
Here, V. Gordon Childe tells the breathtaking tale of the birth of civilization in the Near East, an event as unique in our planet's history as the folding that reared the Alps. In non-technical language, he traces the beginnings of ordered government, urban life, writing and... Tovább

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AN EVERGREEN BOOK (E-72)-$1.95
NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST
By V. Gordon Childe
In NEW LIGHT ON THE MOST ANCIENT EAST, one of the most celebrated archeologlsts of our time achieves what Clyde Kluckhohn In the Saturday Review has described as "the single outstanding example of a book of wide scope for a general audience by an eminent practising archeologist." For in this book, the recent startling archeological discoveries in the Near East are for the first time made meaningful and exciting to the general public as well as the scholar, filling in many rich details and bringing the picture of man's earliest beginnings into much sharper focus.
Here, V. Gordon Childe tells the breathtaking tale of the birth of civilization in the Near East, an event as unique in our planet's history as the folding that reared the Alps. In non-technical language, he traces the beginnings of ordered government, urban life, writing and conscious art on the banks of the Nile, the Euphrates and the Indus which set the stage for the momentous advances of civilization in Europe and elsewhere.
Fifteen years' excavations in Egypt, Iraq, Pakistan, Israel and other Near East and Middle East countries have unearthed a great number of new, exciting, and unexpected discoveries which have converted Childe's prehistory of the Orient, written before World War 1!, into an illustrated account of the birth of civilization that was also the prelude to the most exciting chapters of European prehistory. Childe has completely rewritten and expanded his earlier work to include revealing findings of the recent fruitful period in archeological excavations. His book contains a wealth of new information on the sociology and material culture of the most ancient East, and a very important contribution to a revaluation of the principles of civilized art.
V. Gordon Childe was born in 1 892, educated in Australia and at Queen's College, Oxford. He gained first class honors in Literae Humanitores in 1917, and after traveling in Greece, the Balkans and Central Europe, became Librarian to the Royal Anthropological Institute. He was for twenty years Professor of Prehistoric Archeology at Edinburgh University, and has been since 1946 Director of the Institute of Archeology in London. His published works include THE DAWN OF EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION, THE DANUBE IN PREHISTORY and THE PREHISTORY OF SCOTLAND.
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