The Three Age System in English: new translations of the founding documents

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...

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Main Author: Peter Rowley-Conwy
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ubiquity Press 2004-05-01
Series:Bulletin of the History of Archaeology
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Online Access:http://www.archaeologybulletin.org/article/view/186
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