| 单词 | Three Age system |
| 释义 | Three Age system Three Age system AHD: [thr¶] D.J. [Gri8]K.K. [Gri]n.（名词）A system for classifying prehistoric artifacts according to successive stages of technological development, divided into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron ages.史前三时期分类法：根据连续性技术发展阶段来针对史前人类古器物所做的分类法，分为石器、青铜器及铁器时代用法:In organizing the extensive collection of artifacts at the National Museum of Denmark, the 19th-century Danish archaeologist Christian Thomsen proposed an innovative system based on the assumption of a progression in human technology from stone to bronze to iron. His insight that early technology had developed in chronological stages rather than concurrently at different levels of society proved essentially correct, though ultimately of limited use in describing the various progressions in other parts of the world. Once empirical study of archaeological collections began, Thomsen's Three Age system was rapidly modifed into four ages by the subdivision of the Stone Age into the Old Stone (now Paleolithic) and New Stone (Neolithic) ages. Subsequent refinement has added Mesolithic (Middle Stone) and Chalcolithic (Copper and Stone) to the original terms, which are now known as periods rather than ages. Use of the full terminology—Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, Chalcolithic, Bronze, and Iron—is appropriate only for Europe, the Middle East, and Egypt, and even there it is not uniformly accepted among archaeologists today.19世纪丹麦考古学家克理斯．汤姆生在筹划丹麦国家博物院的大规模古物收藏工作时，根据对人类技术演进阶段的假说，提出一新的分类法：从石器、青铜器到铁器时代。他认为早期人类的技术进展是随年代顺序阶段来发展的，而非在不同社会中同时发展的；而这样的观点在基本上也被证实是正确的，虽然最后很少用来做为世界其它地方发展接段的描述。考古书籍的经验研究一开始，汤姆生的史前三时期分类法很快地被修正为史前四时期，将石器时代再分为旧石器时代及新石器时代，接下来更在原用词中细分加入中石器阶段及红铜阶段(铜石并用阶段)，采用目前所使用的阶段(period)用词而非时代(age)用词。而这一系列的完整用词，旧石器、中石器、新石器、铜石器、铜器、铁器时代，只适用于欧洲、中东、埃及地区，即使其也未被当地考古学家所统一接受 |
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