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From genesis to prehistory : the archaeological three age system and its contested reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford Univ. Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Oxford studies in the history of archaeology.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.