Metal time

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The term Metal Age summarizes the prehistoric epochs of the Copper Age , Bronze Age and Iron Age . In Europe, this applies to continental and southern Scandinavian archeology.

Northern Scandinavia special case

In northern Scandinavian archeology, the term metal age has a specialized meaning that was first introduced by Finnish archaeologists for dating the finds in northern Finland and later adopted by the other Scandinavian archaeologists. The reason was that the classical division into Copper Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age was unsuitable in northern Scandinavia. Because many alloys and iron were found side by side in the sites (graves, sacrificial sites). In addition, ceramics played a decisive role in the formation of the epochs that cannot be brought into line with the classical epochs. In northern Scandinavian archeology, the following epochs are distinguished:

  • Older Metal Age (1800 BC to the turn of the ages)
  • Early Iron Age (from the turn of the ages to 570)
  • Late Iron Age (570 to 1050)

The Late Iron Age thus includes the Viking Age in southern Scandinavia; this is followed by the Middle Ages.

literature

  • Lars Ivar Hansen: Samenes historie fram til 1750 . Oslo 2007.

supporting documents

  1. Brockhaus Enzyklopädie, 19th ed. 1991, Vol. 14, p. 518; The New Encyclopedia Britannica, 15th Ed., 1993, Vol., P. 596.

Web links

Wikisource Wikisource: Metallzeit  - Article of the 4th edition of Meyers Konversations-Lexikon