From Genesis to Prehistory
The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:1st Nov '07
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
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.
important study...an excellent example of how to write the history of archaeology...essential reading * Timothy Champion, Cambridge Archaeological Journal *
this is a fluent and readable book * Current Archaeology *
...a fine and mature work... * Christopher Evans, Antiquity 82 *
ISBN: 9780199227747
Dimensions: 224mm x 145mm x 25mm
Weight: 655g
384 pages