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From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
2007
ISBN
0199227748, 9780199227747, 0199227748
LCC
GN826 .R68 2007
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
7 MB (7169120 bytes)
Series
Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
Pages
383\383
Topic
Education
Time added
2010-02-05 01:51:52

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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