ARCHAEOLOGY IN DENMARK. 13 



Worsaae was, moreover, a writer of force, and his archaeological 

 books and lesser writings are classical. The prehistoric chronol- 

 ogy of Denmark suggested by him is practically that now used 

 by all students ; it is about as follows : 



Stone age. (a) Earlier 3000 to 2000 b. c. 



(b) Later 2000 to 1000 B. C. 



Bronze age. (a) Earlier 1000 to 500 b. c. 



(b) Later 500 to 100 b. c. 



Iron age. (a) Pre-Roman 100 B. c. to 100 a. D. 



(b) Later 100 a. d. 



Thus fortunate in its early directors, the museum is no less 

 fortunate in having for its present director a worthy follower of 

 these two great men. Sophus 

 Miiller is ably carrying on 

 the work of Thomsen and 

 Worsaae. Assisted by a com- 

 petent corps of helpers, the 

 museum is vigorously prose- 

 cuting the work of field col- 

 lecting, noting, mapping, and 

 preservation of Denmark's 

 antiquities. Dr. Miiller has 

 recently produced two im- 

 portant volumes entitled 

 Ordning af Danmarks Old- 

 sager. Volume I is devoted 

 to the stone age, Volume II 

 to the bronze age. The third 

 volume, upon the iron age, a T T . w 



' L & ' Fig. 2. J. J. A. Worsaae. 



is in preparation. In these 



works every type of Danish archeology is carefully described and 

 the very great majority accurately figured. The text is Danish, 

 but a resume in French accompanies it ; the pictures, of course, 

 speak all languages (Fig. 3). 



In Danish archaeology there is no palaeolithic period. Glacial 

 deposits abound in Denmark, but so far evidence of man's exist- 

 ence there at that time is lacking. Very shortly after the ice 

 retreated man must have appeared, and from that time on both 

 the islands and Jutland have been occupied by busy, active, pro- 

 gressive men. 



The oldest monuments seem to be the shell heaps or kjoekken- 

 moeddinger. These abound along certain parts on the coast, espe- 

 cially along the Kategat and elsewhere in Zealand and in Jut- 

 land. They are heaps sometimes hundreds of metres in length, 

 dozens of metres in width, and as much as three metres in thick- 

 ness. They consist mainly of the broken or entire shells of ma- 



