Craft Specialization and Social Evolution
Wailes, Bernard Craft Specialization and Social EvolutionIn Memory of V. Gordon ChildeEdited by Bernard WailesV. Gordon Childe was the first scholar to attempt a broad and sustained socioeconomic analysis of the archaeology of the ancient world in terms that, today, could be called explanatory. To most, he was remembered only as a diligent synthesizer whose whole interpretation collapsed when its chronology was demolished. There was little recognition of his ...