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

P. Rowley-Conwy

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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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Book information

ISBN:	9780199227747
Publisher:	OUP OXFORD
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	01 Nov 2007
DEWEY:	936.3
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	362
Weight:	574g
Height:	225mm
Width:	145mm
Spine width:	27mm