From Genesis to Prehistory: The Archaeological Three Age System and its Contested Reception in Denmark, Britain, and Ireland
Author:   Peter Rowley-Conwy (Reader in Archaeology, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
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9780199227747


Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Format:   Hardback
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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.

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Author:   Peter Rowley-Conwy (Reader in Archaeology, Durham University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 14.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.40cm
Weight:   0.655kg
ISBN:  

9780199227747


ISBN 10:   0199227748
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   01 November 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

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

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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


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


this is a fluent and readable book Current Archaeology


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Peter Rowley-Conwy is Reader in Archaeology, Durham University.

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