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Childe's next work, The Bronze Age ( 1930 ), dealt with the titular Bronze Age in Europe, and displayed his increasing acceptance of Marxist theory in understanding how society functioned and changed.

He believed that metal was the first indispensable article of commerce, and that metal-smiths were therefore full-time professionals who lived off the social surplus.

Within a matter of years he had followed this up with a string of further works: The Forest Cultures of Northern Europe: A Study in Evolution and Diffusion ( 1931 ), The Continental Affinities of British Neolithic Pottery ( 1932 ) and Neolithic Settlement in the West of Scotland ( 1934 ).