ANTH207 Lecture 1: ANTH207-Debates-in-Archaeology
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Old stone age, new stone age, metal age. Denmark, looked at tool progression, based at a museum, three age system based on actual finds based on typology. Developed by sven nilsson and more widely known worsaae. The primitive inhabitants of the scandinavian north (1838-1843) (cid:449)as the fi(cid:396)st to (cid:272)o(cid:374)fi(cid:396)(cid:373) tho(cid:373)se(cid:374)(cid:859)s th(cid:396)ee age s(cid:455)ste(cid:373) (cid:271)(cid:455) a(cid:272)tual st(cid:396)atig(cid:396)aphi(cid:272) e(cid:454)(cid:272)avation. He argued that the stone age has an earlier period (foraging) and a later one characterised by farming. He recognised that stone tools in french cave deposits were earlier than those from denmark these were later called the palaeolithic, mesolithic and neolithic by the earl of avebury. People were now finding enough to associate palaeolithic artefacts in ancient river gravels, caves a(cid:374)d i(cid:374) asso(cid:272)iatio(cid:374) (cid:449)ith (cid:271)o(cid:374)es of e(cid:454)ti(cid:374)(cid:272)t a(cid:374)i(cid:373)als (cid:894)(cid:449)ooll(cid:455) (cid:396)hi(cid:374)o(cid:272)e(cid:396)os(cid:859) a(cid:374)d sa(cid:271)(cid:396)e tooth tige(cid:396)s(cid:895) Neolithic axes found with pottery, bones of domesticated animals (sheep, cattle) in burial mounds across europe.
