From Genesis to Prehistory
The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
Published on 1. November 2007
Book
Hardback
384 pages
978-0-19-922774-7 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
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 *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
55 in-text illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 224 mm
Width: 145 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
655 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-922774-7 (9780199227747)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Peter Rowley-Conwy is Reader in Archaeology, Durham University.
Content
1. Chronologies in Conflict ; 2. The Construction of Prehistory: Copenhagen to 1836 ; 3. The Three Age System as Predator: Copenhagen and Lund 1836-1850 ; 4. The Disinterested Gentlemen: England to 1860 ; 5. Scotland: The Creation of a Nation's Prehistory ; 6. Ireland: Realm of the Four Masters ; 7. Fighting it Through: England 1860-1880 ; 8. Aftermath