Montelianadj.
/mɒnˈtiːlɪən/, U.S. /mɑnˈtiliən/ Archaeology.
Of, relating to, or designating the system of prehistoric chronology devised by Montelius (esp. in relation to the Bronze Age in northern Europe), based chiefly on the typology of metal objects.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > branches of chronology or methods of dating
geochronological1815
synchronological1836
Montelian1937
rubidium–strontium1941
dendrochronological1959
age-dated1984
1937 G. E. Daniel in Antiquity 11 185 The implications of the Montelian theory of the dolmen are fivefold.
1941 Proc. Prehistoric Soc. 7 21 Archaeologists who neglect the B-Dolmens of northern Europe are destroying..any case they might make for the defence of the Montelian sequence.
1950 G. E. Daniel Hundred Years Archæol. xii. 235 The Montelian periods were rendered difficult to use because of their very close linkage in typology and name with the various classes of collective tombs.
1993 C. Tilley Interpretative Archaeol. viii. 357 This orderly succession of Great Men and Great Theories often reads like a Montelian typology of successive archaeologies, each leading to a more complete and perfect understanding of the past.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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