From Genesis to Prehistory : The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland Hardback
by Peter (Reader in Archaeology, Durham University) Rowley-Conwy
Part of the Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology series
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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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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, 55 in-text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2007
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- ISBN:9780199227747
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Out of stock
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:384 pages, 55 in-text illustrations
- Publisher:Oxford University Press
- Publication Date:01/11/2007
- Category:
- ISBN:9780199227747