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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...

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Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rowley-Conwy, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Univ. Press, ©2007.
Series:Oxford studies in the history of archaeology.
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Online Access:Texto completo

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