Abstract
The Stone – Bronze – Iron framework for ordering archaeological artifacts and epochs emerged in Denmark and southern Sweden in the years 1835–43, and is justly considered one of the defining developments in the origins of archaeology. Some of the crucial documents appeared in English in the mid-19th century. Anglophone historians of archaeology make considerable use of these, but like the Scandinavian originals they are now scarce and often cannot be tracked down by the more general reader.
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The Stone – Bronze – Iron framework for ordering archaeological artifacts and epochs emerged in Denmark and southern Sweden in the years 1835–43, and is justly considered one of the defining developments in the origins of archaeology
In the AGE OF BRONZE, on the other hand, we find the ornaments in a state of perfect development, and of so marked a character as to furnish a criterion which in most cases will enable us with tolerable certainty to determine the articles belonging to that age, and more especially to distinguish them from such as are referable to a subsequent period
The founding documents of the Three Age System, when available in English at all, are in translations of uneven quality that have somewhat obscured their nature and content. It is the intention of the present project (Rowley-Conwy in prep.) to remedy this and discuss their background in detail
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The Stone – Bronze – Iron framework for ordering archaeological artifacts and epochs emerged in Denmark and southern Sweden in the years 1835–43, and is justly considered one of the defining developments in the origins of archaeology. The first is part of the introduction to Nilsson’s major work on birds, and uses Thomsen’s ( not fully published) notion that stone tools were the earliest cultural remains These are examined and linked to a hunting, fishing and gathering way of life, regarded by Nilsson as the earliest of four economic forms, succeeded by nomadic herding, by settled agriculture, and by the modern state. The earlier portions of these chapters remain unchanged from their 1838 or 1839 versions; corrections listed in an erratum slip in Section 3 (1839) have not even been included in the 1843 text This composite book was Nilsson’s principal contribution to the emergent chronologies of the 1830s and 1840s, but it is quite different to the version that appeared in English much later. The stone age of different nations. – The source of tradition. – dwarfs, giants, goblins, etc., were originally people of different tribes and religion
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