V. Cordon Childe What is Progress

WHAT IS PROGRESS? 

Has man made progress through the ages? Has he utilized himself and his surroundings to the best possible degree? What actually comprises progress? 

Here, published for the first time in America, are a noted scholar's brilliant and fascinating answers to these vital questions. V. Gordon Childe goes back 340,000 years in his fascinating quest for the major contributions that man has made through the ages, revealing the most significant discoveries which man has made from his earliest beginnings to modern times. 

Eminent archaeologist and distinguished scholar, V. GORDON CHILDE was born in Sydney, Australia,in 1892. A graduate of Sydney and Oxford universities, he was appointed the first Abercromby Professor of Prehistoric Archaeology at the University of Edinburgh in 1927 and directed numerous epoch-making excavations. 

In 1936 he was selected to represent prehistoric archaeology at the Harvard University Conference of Arts and Science. Possessor of numer-ous academic honors, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1940. Professor Childe died in 1957.