Document Type : Research

Author

• Rohullah Bahrami

Associate Professor of the History of Islam, Razi University, Kermanshah, Iran

Abstract

Vere Gordon Childe, an Australian archaeologist and historian, was one of most spectacular figures in archaeology and history in the first half of the 20^th century. He took a methodologically synthetic approach to offer particular issues which are still given attention by pre-historians and historians. In this respect, his influential book History, targeting a survey of current theories on the history and historiography, was so given attention by academics in Iran that has been translated and published for several times. In this paper, it is attempted to review the Persian version of the book and that the methodological synthetic approach taken by its author about the historical order and the variables of such interpretation on the history.

Keywords

• Vere Gordon Childe
• Archaeology
• History
• Criticism
• Method
• Technology
• Creative historical evolution

Main Subjects

• History