CHILDE, V. Gordon

CHILDE, Vere Gordon. Sydney 14.4.1892 — Blackheath, NSW, Australia 19.10.1957. Australian Archaeologist and Historian in the U.K. Son of the Rev. Stephen Henry Childe and Harriet Gordon. Educated at Church of England Grammar School and Sydney University. In 1914 came to England and studied at Queen’s College in Oxford. B.Litt. 1916.…

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CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L.

CARLLEYLE, Archibald Campbell L. (himself wrote Carleyle; some have Carlyle). 1831 — 1897. British Archaeologist. Came to India as tutor to the sons of the raja of Vizianagram, then curator of Riddell Museum in Agra. Assistant of Cunningham in the A.S.I. from 1871, from 1875/80 First Assistant. In 1871 he…

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CAPPIERI, Mario

CAPPIERI, Mario. 1894 — 1979. Italian Anthropologist. Professor of Anthropology in Rome (in the 1950s Assistant). Publications: “Le caste degli intoccabili in India”, Rivista di Antropoligia 35, 1947, 424-429; “Unità ed omogeneità antropologica degli Andamanesi”, Anthropos 57, 1962, 374-433; other articles on the Andamanese. – L’India preistorica. 233 p. 32…

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BOSCH I GIMPERA, Pere

BOSCH I GIMPERA, Pere. Barcelona 22.3.1891 — Ciudad de México 9.10.1974. Spanish Archaeologist and IE Scholar in Mexico. Son of Pere Bosch i Padró and Dolores Gimpera i Juncá. Studies at Barcelona, soon switched from law to classical philology, lic. degree 1910. Ph.D. 1911 Madrid, in Greek literature. A second…

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