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Oscar Montelius

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Montelius' impetus was at first to provide relative dates for artifacts in museum collections that often lacked rigorous records, by making comparisons with other artifacts within a comparable geographical area. Montelius' method created a timeline specific to the location, based on material remains.
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Oscar Montelius refined the concept of typology, a relative chronological dating method. Typology is the procedure of working out a chronology by arranging material remains of a cultural tradition in the order that produces the most consistent patterning of their cultural traits. Typologies are the
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theories were eventually displaced by more complex views of cultural interaction but following refinement his system of sub-divisions is still effectively in use. Montelius was made a member of the
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were from the Nordic Bronze Age, by comparing axes portrayed in the petroglyphs with archaeological finds. Further he supported Thomsen's typology of gold
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Later, when combined with written historical references, objects could be provided absolute dates. He took the
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Die Chronologie der ältesten Bronzezeit in Nord-Deutschland und Skandinavien. F. Vieweg and Son, 1900.
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La civilisation primitive en Italie depuis l'introduction des métaux, Part 1. Imprimerie royale, 1895.
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and associated finds to apply absolute dates to archaeological finds and features all over
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museum collections of archaeological materials, and sub-divided it further. He divided the
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into six I-VI. He was the first to establish that the numerous Swedish
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The Civilisation of Sweden in Heathen Times. Macmillan and Co., 1888.
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Oscar Montelius was married to Swedish philanthropist and feminist
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basis for seriation, a technique developed by English Egyptologist
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grave (a type of grave that was common in Sweden during the
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Remains from the Iron Age of Scandinavia. Häggström, 1869.
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By taking calendrical dates from the recently deciphered
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Das Museum vaterländischer Alterthümer. Häggström, 1897.
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Tombe ed antichità galliche in Italia. Salviucci, 1877.
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Om lifvet i Sverige under hednatiden. Norstedt, 1873.
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Index

Montelius

Emerik Stenberg
Ord & Bild
Stockholm
Swedish
seriation
Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts
Anders Retzius Medal
archaeology
Swedish
archaeologist
seriation
relative chronological dating method
Flinders Petrie
three-age system
Stone Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Christian Jürgensen Thomsen
Danish
Neolithic
Scandinavia
Nordic Bronze Age
petroglyphs
bracteates
hieroglyphics
Ancient Egypt
typologies
Europe

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