From Genesis to Prehistory - The Archaeological Three Age System Its Contested Reception in

Informationen zum Autor Peter Rowley-Conwy is Reader in Archaeology, Durham University. Klappentext 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 contest in Britain and Ireland up to the 1870s. Zusammenfassung 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 contest in Britain and Ireland up to the 1870s.

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• Authors: Peter Rowley-Conwy, Peter (Reader in Archaeology Rowley-Conwy, Rowley-Conwy Peter
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 29.11.2007
• EAN: 9780199227747
• ISBN: 978-0-19-922774-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology; Oxford Studies in the History; Oxford Studies in the History of Archaeology; Oxford Studies in the History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Non-fiction book > History > Pre and early history, antiquity; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Denmark, European History, prehistory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837), HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901), 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Archaeology by period / region, Prehistoric archaeology, Archaeological Theory, HISTORY / Europe / Nordic Countries