Researched
Three-Age System
Thomsen orders Danish museum finds into Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages (1836), the first scientific chronology of prehistory.
Open in the interactive tree →Christian Jürgensen Thomsen arranged the National Museum's collection by material and by finds that belonged together, and Worsaae's excavations confirmed the sequence by layers. It made prehistory, which has no written records, a subject of systematic study.
Prerequisites
- Metallurgy (Bronze, Iron)~2500 BC
- Stratigraphy (Steno)1669
- Public Museum1753