20 Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong? (1995)

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION Changing Perspectives on European Prehistory 1
6. Section I CYCLES OF INTERPRETATION
7. 1 V. Gordon Childe: Archaeology and Intellectual History (1989) 38
8. Section II ECOLOGICAL IMPERATIVES?
9. 2 Socio-economic and Demographic Models for Later Prehistoric Europe (1972) 70
10. 3 Water, Soil and Seasonality in Early Cereal Cultivation (1980) 85
11. 4 Resources, Technology and Trade: An Essay on Early European Metallurgy (1976) 102
12. 5 Social Evolution: Europe in the Later Neolithic and Copper Ages (1984) 134
13. 6 Plough and Pastoralism: Aspects of the Secondary Products Revolution (1981) 158
14. 7 The Secondary Exploitation of Animals in the Old World (1983, Revised) 199
15. 8 Wool, Wheels and Ploughmarks: Local Developments or Outside Introductions in Neolithic Europe? (Submitted 19 8 5, published 19 8 7) 229
16. 9 Two New Finds of Wooden Wheels from Later Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Europe (1986) 242
17. Section IV PATTERNS ON THE GROUND
18. 10 Mobile Resources: Settlement and Exchange in Early Agricultural Europe (1982) 252
19. 11 The Development of Neolithic and Copper Age Settlement in the Great Hungarian Plain (1983, 1984) 270
20. 12 Neolithic Exchange Systems in Central Europe, 6000-3500 BC (1987) 320
21. 13 The Genesis of Megaliths: Monumentality, Ethnicity and Social Complexity in Neolithic North-West Europe (1990) 333
22. 14 Instruments of Conversion? The Role of Megaliths in the Mesolithic-Neolithic Transition in North-West Europe (1995) 354
23. Section V INVISIBLE FLOWS: LANGUAGES, CULTURE AND DRUGS
24. 15 Cups that Cheered: The Introduction of Alcohol to Prehistoric Europe! (1987) 376
25. 16 Sacred and Profane Substances: The Ritual Use of Narcotics in Later Neolithic Europe! (1991) 403
26. 17 Metal Vessels in Bronze Age Europe and the Context of Vulchetrun (with T. Taylor) (1984, published 1989) 431
27. 18 Troy, Maikop, Altyn Depe: Early Bronze Age Urbanism and its Periphery (1991) 457
28. 19 The Archaeology of Indo-European: An Alternative View (with E. S. Sherratt) (1988) 471
29. Section VI A CONVERSATION WITH CHILDE
30. 20 Gordon Childe: Right or Wrong? (1995) 490
31. BIBLIOGRAPHY 506
32. INDEX 552