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From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland (Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology)

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2007
ISBN
0199227748, 9780199227747, 9780191527821
LCC
GN826 .R68 2007
Open Library ID
OL10145972M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7131625 bytes)
Pages
383\383
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

We are now familiar with the Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age. This division, which amounted at the time to a major scientific revolution, was conceived in Denmark in the 1830s. Peter Rowley-Conwy investigates the reasons why the Three Age system was adopted without demur in Scandinavian archaeological circles, yet was the subject of a bitter and long-drawn-out contest in Britain and Ireland, up to the 1870s.

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