WAs childe an orientalist? An updated view of gordon childe's the dawn of european civilization and new light of the most ancient east

This paper intends to provide an updated view of two essential books written by Vere Gordon Childe, The Dawn of European Civilization and New Light on the Most Ancient East, while trying to answer the following question: was Childe an Orientalist? In trying to answer this question I explore both books using the definitions provided by Edward Said in his book Orientalism, in which he analyses scholarly Western attitudes towards the East, and the way Western scholars embedded their cultural biases when explaining "Oriental culture" (and its material and nonmaterial manifestations. As a conceptual method of analysis, a deductive model is provided in order to answer this question.