MAN MAKES HIMSELF

Man Makes Himself is the classic introduction to the history of early man. Starting over 340000 years ago when man''s ability to make a fire and fashion stone tools helped him to survive among the wild beasts it traces his development as a food producer the emergence of cities and states the rise of foreign trade and the urban revolution. V. Gordon Childe was a remarkable man who is considered the father of modern archaeology who specialised in the study of European prehistory. A vocal socialist Childe accepted the socio-economic theory of Marxism and was an early though unorthodox proponent of Marxist archaeology. Childe was the author of several well-known books on the subject of archaeology and prehistory most notably Man Makes Himself and What Happened in History.