— Gordon Childe, in letter to Rajani Palme Dutt, 1938.
australský archeolog, historik a lingvista
"The Marxist view of history and prehistory is admittedly material determinist and materialist. But its determinism does not mean mechanism. The Marxist account is in fact termed 'dialectical materialism'. It is deterministic in as much as it assumes that the historical process is not a mere succession of inexplicable or miraculous happenings, but that all the constituent events are interrelated and form an intelligible pattern."
"The most original and useful contributions that I may have made to prehistory are certainly not novel data rescued by brilliant excavation from the soil or by patient research from dusty museum cases, nor yet well founded chronological schemes nor freshly defined cultures, but rather interpretative concepts and methods of explanation."
— Gordon Childe, 1957.
Vere Gordon Childe
"While he may not have provided answers that modern archaeologists find satisfactory, [Childe] challenged colleagues of his own and succeeding decades by constructing a vision of archaeology that was as broad as that of other social sciences, but which also took account of the particular strengths and limitations of archaeological data."
— Bruce Trigger, 1980.
澳大利亞考古學家
"Because the early Hindus and Persians did really call themselves Aryans, this term was adopted by some nineteenth-century philologists to designate the speakers of the 'parent tongue'. It is now applied scientifically only to the Hindus, Iranian peoples and the rulers of Mitanni whose linguistic ancestors spoke closely related dialects and even worshipped common deities. As used by Nazis and anti-semites generally, the term 'Aryan' means as little as the words 'Bolshie' and 'Red' in the mouths of crusted tories."
Британски историчар и археолог
australialainen arkeologi
őstörténész, terepi régész
Blackheath, New South Wales, Australia
filoloog uit Australië (1892-1957)
"My Oxford training was in the Classical tradition to which bronzes, terracottas and pottery were respectable while stone and bone tools were banausic."
archéologue, préhistorien, spécialiste de la protohistoire de l'Europe
— Gordon Childe, 1979 [1949].
Arqueólogo y filólogo australiano.
arqueólogo, pré-historiador, especialista em proto-história da Europa
australischer Prähistoriker und Archäologietheoretiker
Historian dhe arkeologë Britanik
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Αυστραλός αρχαιολόγος
Avustralyalı arkeolog
— Gordon Childe, 1958.
— Bruce Trigger, 1994
"By far the most important source [of Childe's thinking], especially in the early stages of his career, was the highly developed western European archaeology, which had been established as a scientific discipline for over a century. His research and publications took the form mainly of contributions to the development of that tradition. His thinking was also influenced, however, by ideas derived from Soviet archaeology and American anthropology as well as from more remote disciplines. He had a subsidiary interest in philosophy and politics, and was more concerned than were most archaeologists of his time with justifying the social value of archaeology."
"To me Marxism means effectively a way of approach to and a methodological device for the interpretation of historical and archaeological material and I accept it because and in so far as it works. To the average communist and anti-communist alike... Marxism means a set of dogmas—the words of the master from which as among mediaeval schoolmen, one must deduce truths which the scientist hopes to infer from experiment and observation."
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— Gordon Childe criticising the Nazi conception of an Aryan race, What Happened in History, 1942.
"As the [Australian] Labour Party, starting with a band of inspired Socialists, degenerated into a vast machine for capturing political power, but did not know how to use that political power except for the profit of individuals; so the [One Big Union] will, in all likelihood, become just a gigantic apparatus for the glorification of a few bosses. Such is the history of all Labour organizations in Australia, and that is not because they are Australian, but because they are Labour."
"We find certain types of remains—pots, implements, ornaments, burial rites, house forms—constantly recurring together. Such a complex of regularly associated traits we shall term a 'cultural group' or just a 'culture'. We assume that such a complex is the material expression of what today would be called a people."
nhà khảo cổ người Úc (1892–1957)
Australia karimba ŋun nyɛ doo
— Gordon Childe, How Labour Governs, 1923.
— Gordon Childe, The Danube in Prehistory, 1929.
archeologo australiano (1892-1957)
V. Gordon Childe
ארכאולוג ואנתרופולג אוסטרלי
British prehistorian archaeologist (1892–1957)
australijski archeolog i antropolog
Гордон Чайлд
ゴードン・チャイルド
جوردون تشايلد
戈登·柴尔德
비어 고든 차일드
Gordon Childe
Чайлд, Гордон
Βηρ Γκόρντον Τσάιλντ