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antiquities), an important work, of which the second edition especially, 

 under the title: NordisJce Oldsager (Northern Antiquities) 1851), circu- 

 lated in all Europe, and which, still frequently quoted, has served as a 

 model for several similar paleo ethnological atlases in different countries. 

 In this work appeared for the first time the sub-division of the age of iron 

 into two periods. About 1840, moreover, few remains of the age of iron 

 were known in Denmark, while those of the age of bronze were numer- 

 ous ; investigators inclined to the opinion that the age of bronze ex- 

 tended there down toward the year 7(K) of our era. In 1853, Mr. Worsaae, 

 with the co-operation of Mr. Ilerbst, discovered a first age of iron, char- 

 acterized especially by numerous imported Roman j^ieces, and whose 

 duration he determined as from the year 1 to about 500 of our era. In 

 a memoir of 1859, Mr. Worsaae also proposed sub divisions of the age of 

 stone and of the age of bronze. As to the age of stone, he wished to 

 establish a first i)eriod, comprising essentially the l^j^Jxl-envi^ddings with 

 their ground flint, and corresponding to an epoch of transition from the 

 paleolithic age to the neolithic age in the west of Europe ; then a second 

 period, characterized by the dolmens and the ground and polished flint; 

 but this sub-division was very energetically contested by Mr. Steenstrui). 

 In the reports of the Academy of Copenhagen, 1859-'62, this question 

 was earnestly discussed by Mr. Worsaae and Mr. Steenstrup ; the lat- 

 ter wished to maintain the contemporaneity of the ]ij<^kkemK^ddings and 

 the dolmens. 



Among the most considerable publications of Danish paleo-ethnology 

 about 1870, should be noticed moreover Mr. Engelhardt's descriptions 

 of some great discoveries of the first iron age, or more exactly of the 

 lower Roman epoch, which had been made in some marshy meadows in 

 Sleswick and in Fionia. 



The Swiss Morlot contributed much to make Danish paleo ethnology 

 and its results known abroad. In 1858, he studied a long time at the 

 museum of Copenhagen and on his return to his native laud, published 

 several memoirs upon the prehistoric labors of the savants of the North. 



SWEDEN. 



In Sweden also attention had been directed, in past centuries to pre- 

 historic remains and objects. Beginning with the year IGOG, the Gov- 

 ernment had established a college of anti(]uities which was charged 

 with forming a collection of the ancient treasures which might be found 

 in che soil. Although that is to be considered as the germ of the 

 archaeological museum of Stockholm, only a few objects nevertheless 

 were collected there. When in 1780, King Gustavus III founded the 

 Royal Academy of belles-lettres, of history, and of antiquities, that in- 

 stitution was charged with the care of the remains of the country and 

 with the custody of the collection which had already existed for a cent- 

 ury. The Swedish historians often meutionecj at this period ancient 

 objects, but it was only in our century that the special study of national 

 antiquities began in Sweden. 

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