by V. Gordon Childe · Planeta Deagostini · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788439501473
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«Nacimiento de las civilizaciones orientales» is the historical essay by V. Gordon Childe, published by Planeta Deagostini in paperback (303 pages, in Spanish).
The author examines how the first societies of the Middle East were formed, analysing the economic, cultural and social factors that allowed the birth of civilisation in that region. The work covers the historical process from its origins to the year 622, paying attention to the cultural manifestations of those communities.
Volume 59 of the collection «Obras Maestras del Pensamiento Contemporáneo», with a translation by E. A. Llobregat of the original «New light on the most ancient East» and bibliography.
For readers interested in the history of the Middle East and in the reference works of the Obras Maestras del Pensamiento Contemporáneo collection.
Vere Gordon Childe was an Australian archaeologist who specialised in the study of European prehistory. He spent most of his life in the United Kingdom, working as an academic for the University of Edinburgh and then the Institute of Archaeology, London. He wrote twenty-six books during his career. Initially an early proponent of culture-historical archaeology, he later became the first exponent of Marxist archaeology in the Western world.
