Chronologies in conflict -- Construction of prehistory : Copenhagen to 1836 -- Three Age System as predator : Copenhagen and Lund 1836-1850 -- Disinterested gentlemen : England to 1860 -- Scotland : the creation of a nation's prehistory -- Ireland : realm of the four masters -- Fighting it through : England 1860-1880 -- Appendix 1 : Translation of Münter's proposal of 1807 -- Appendix 2 : Translation of Thomsen's letters of 1825 to J.G.G. Büsching -- Appendix 3 : Translation of Eschricht's (1837) paper on Crania -- Appendix 4 : Prichard's discussion of the Three Age System in 1841 -- Appendix 5 : Translation of Worsaae's letter of 1847 on Irish politics.
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The now familiar Three Age System, the archaeological partitioning of the past into Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages, was conceived in Denmark in the 1830s. Peter Rowley-Conwy investigates the reasons why the system was adopted without demur in Scandinavia, yet was the subject of a bitter and protracted contest in Britain and Ireland up to the 1870s. - ;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.
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Title
From genesis to prehistory.
International Standard Book Number
0199227748
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Antiquities, Prehistoric-- Denmark.
Antiquities, Prehistoric-- Great Britain.
Antiquities, Prehistoric-- Ireland.
Prehistoric peoples-- Denmark.
Prehistoric peoples-- Great Britain.
Prehistoric peoples-- Ireland.
Antiquities, Prehistoric.
Antiquities.
Archeologie.
HISTORY-- Ancient-- General.
Periodisering.
Prehistoric peoples.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Denmark, Antiquities.
Great Britain, Antiquities.
Ireland, Antiquities.
Denemarken.
Denmark.
Great Britain.
Ierland.
Ireland.
Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland.