Previous Year Question
The three age system-Stone, Bronze and Iron from the collection of Copenhagen museum was coined by
Thomson
Lubbock
Taylor
Childe
Correct Answer: A
Detailed Solution
The correct answer is Thomson, i.e. Christian Jürgensen Thomsen.
Danish archaeologist and museum curator Christian Jürgensen Thomsen established the Three-Age System to arrange archaeological remains according to the predominant material used for tools and weapons.
Under this system, human prehistory was divided into three major stages—
Stone Age → Bronze Age → Iron Age
Thomsen applied this system while arranging the collection of antiquities at Copenhagen. It became an important early method for establishing relative chronology in archaeology.
His arrangement was published in 1836 and was later widely accepted in archaeological classification.