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Vere Gordon Childe  

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  • Vere Gordon Childe was a 20th-century archaeologist whose work concentrated on European prehistory, social evolution, and origins of the archaic state. Born in Sydney, Australia, in 1892, Childe moved to Britain to begin his studies at Oxford University in 1914. [Source: Encyclopedia of Anthropology; Childe, Vere Gordon (1892–1956)]

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