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

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

by Peter Rowley-Conwy
From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland

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

by Peter 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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780191527821
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Publication date: 11/01/2007
Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 7 MB

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

  • 1: Chronologies in Conflict
  • 2: The Construction of Prehistory: Copenhagen to 1836
  • 3: The Three Age System as Predator: Copenhagen and Lund 1836-1850
  • 4: The Disinterested Gentlemen: England to 1860
  • 5: Scotland: The Creation of a Nation's Prehistory
  • 6: Ireland: Realm of the Four Masters
  • 7: Fighting it Through: England 1860-1880
  • 8: Aftermath
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