danish archaeologist is credited with devising the three-age system.
danish archaeologist is credited with devising the three-age system.
who is credited with devising the three-age system?
danish archaeologist
section::::bronze age subdivisions.









































danish archaeology took the lead in defining the bronze age, with little of the controversy surrounding the stone age. british archaeologists patterned their own excavations after those of the danish, which they followed avidly in the media. references to the bronze age in british excavation reports began in the 1820s contemporaneously with the new system being promulgated by c.j. thomsen. mention of the early and late bronze age began in the 1860s following the bipartite definitions of worsaae.









































section::::bronze age subdivisions.:the tripartite system of sir john evans.
three-age system
an important step in the development of the three-age system came when the danish antiquarian christian jürgensen thomsen was able to use the danish national collection of antiquities and the records of their finds as well as reports from contemporaneous excavations to provide a solid empirical basis for the system. he showed that artifacts could be classified into types and that these types varied over time in ways that correlated with the predominance of stone, bronze or iron implements and weapons. in this way he turned the three-age system from being an evolutionary scheme based on intuition and general knowledge into a system of relative chronology supported by archaeological evidence. initially, the three-age system as it was developed by thomsen and his contemporaries in scandinavia, such as sven nilsson and j.j.a. worsaae, was grafted onto the traditional biblical chronology. but, during the 1830s they achieved independence from textual chronologies and relied mainly on typology and stratigraphy.
three-age system