01:070:105 Study Guide - Comprehensive Midterm Guide: Paleolithic, Gordon Willey, Lewis Binford
5 Oct 2016
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The beginnings of archeology: the three age system: c. j. Thompson published in english in 1848 guide to northern archeology : he proposed that museum collections be divided into those coming from the - Bronze age and iron age: later on, the stone age was divided in to the palaeolithic (old stone age) and the. Neolithic (new stone age): however, this system was not applicable to sub-saharan africa or to the americas, this system however showed that by studying and classifying archeological artefacts, it is possible to establish a chronological order. Champolion deciphering of the rosetta stone (1822) Rawlinson cracking of the cruciform code (1850) Stephen discovery of ancient maya"s ruins (1840) Schiemann excavation of troy (1870) and mycenae (1880) Classi cation and consolidation: end of the 19th century until 1960, there was focus and establishment of chronological systems. 5: this led to the development of chronological sequences of early civilisations.
