| Description | Folder containing essays, lectures and some occasional reading notes. Social Anthropology lecture notes also. All comments on essays and marking are by Vere Gordon Childe.
1. Essay 1. 'Illustrate the concept of culture by reference to the Aurignacian'.
2. Essay. 'Evolution of flake culture'. Marked with comments. No grade given.
3. Essay for 9th February 1953. 'Sketch the development of the (First) Northern Culture in Denmark and South Sweden to the Dagger Period.' Marked with comments. Grade given.
4. Essay for 27th April 1953. 'In the Bronze Age, while the continent was still divided, as in the 20th centuries BC and AD, into a plurality of distinct 'cultures' a lively inter-change of manufactured goods and raw materials linked up the British Isles, Northern and Central Europe into a single economic system attached by perhaps two routes to the Aegean'. Explain. Marked with comments.
5. Essay. Summarise Childe's account of the Neolithic cultures of Britain in chapter III (3 to 5) of PCBI indicating any additions or omissions which have become necessary since 1949. Marked with comments.
6. Essay. 'The Middle Bronze Age. When did it begin and end in Britain and what happened in it?' Marked with comments.
7. Reading/lecture notes. 'Atlantic trade - literary evidence'. Red underlinings by John Lewis.
8. Reading/lecture notes. 'Childe: Archaeology 1953: a recantation?' 13th October 1953.
9. Reading/lecture notes. 'Childe: the Indo-European question'. 3rd November 1953.
10. Reading notes. Savory: 'the sword-bearers'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1948.
11. Reading notes. Savory: 'the Atlantic Bronze Age in south-west Europe'. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society 1949.
12. Lecture notes. Social Anthropology.
13. Lecture notes. Childe: History of Anthropology. 1953/4. |