From Genesis to Prehistory

The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
ISBN13: 9780199227747ISBN10: 0199227748 Hardback, 360 pages
Nov 2007,  In Stock

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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.

Features

  • The first full treatment of the origins and reception of the now well accepted Three Age System of successive Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages
  • A fascinating contribution to the history of archaeology, deploying material from the deep historical to the personal and accidental

Product Details

360 pages; 55 in-text illus.; ISBN13: 978-0-19-922774-7ISBN10: 0-19-922774-8

About the Author(s)

Peter Rowley-Conwy is Reader in Archaeology, Durham University.

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