Anatolia and the Bronze Age: The History of the Earliest Kingdoms and Cities that Dominated the Region Audiobook Libro.fm

While the Bronze Age is recognized as one of historys most important phases its been hard for historians to precisely date The idea of the Bronze Age comes from a threeage system developed in the 19th century through which archaeologists and historians believe cultures evolve These three ages are the Stone Age the Bronze Age and the Iron Age and the concept of the system stems from the simultaneous development of museums in Europe during that time In the Royal Museum of Nordic Antiquities in Denmark Christian Jrgensen Thomsen the director of the museum began classifying objects of stone bronze or iron to better categorize and exhibit them Each archaeological artifact was thus sorted according to their materials and further organized by shape and style Through such methodology working alongside archaeological reports he was able to show how certain objects changed over time