How long does it take to read Man Makes Himself?
Man Makes Himself by V. Gordon Childe takes about 3 hours 59 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 3 hours 59 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1936. 217 pages, about 59,675 words.
8 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 6 hours 38 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 3 hours 59 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 2 hours 29 minutes |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
V. Gordon Childe was educated in Australia as an archaeologist. He adopted a Marxist approach to the evolution of human cultures, recognizing the interpenetration of cultures as populations came into contact and adopted techniques from one another. He stressed the importance of the development of human creativity and its growing effect on the pace and content of cultural evolution. He also recognized the interplay between biological and cultural evolution as the evolution of primates developed a lineage that culminated in the appearance of H. sapiens. The book was published in 1939.
Subjects: Progress, Prehistoric peoples, Archaeology, Ancient Civilization, Archéologie, Prehistorie
