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Meanwhile, Childe had earned himself a reputation as a " prehistorian of exceptional promise ", and he began to be invited to travel to other parts of Europe in order to study prehistoric artefacts.

In 1922 he travelled to Vienna in Austria where he examined unpublished material about the painted Neolithic pottery from Schipenitz, Bukowina that was held in the Prehistoric Department of the Natural History Museum.

He soon published his findings from this visit in the 1923 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Childe also used this excursion as an opportunity to visit a number of museums in Czechoslovakia and Hungary, bringing them to the attention of British archaeologists in a 1922 article published in Man.

Returning to London, Childe became a private secretary again in 1922, this time for three British Members of Parliament, including John Hope Simpson and Frank Gray, both of whom were members of the centre-left Liberal Party.

To supplement this income, Childe, who had mastered a variety of European languages, also worked as a translator for the publishers Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co and occasionally lectured in prehistory at the London School of Economics.