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Vere Gordon Childe (1892—1957) prehistorian and labour theorist

 

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Neolithic Revolution


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A term popularized by Gordon Childe in the 1940s to reflect the huge impact on life that was made by the development and spread of farming, which he saw as one of two critical moments in early history (the other he called the Urban Revolution).

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Neolithic Revolution
in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2) Length: 48 words

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