| 单词 | three ages |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthree ages three ages n. Archaeology the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages (see also three-age adj. at Compounds 3a(a)). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > historical period > [noun] > prehistoric periods dark ages1842 Iron Age1845 iron period1847 stone period1849 lithic age1862 Aurignac1863 stone age1864 three ages1866 Palaeolithic1869 Middle Stone Age1870 prehistory1871 stone era1873 Siwalik1877 Neolithic1878 hemera1893 Mesvinian1909 Mesolithic1931 Abbevillian1937 Devensian1968 Creswellian1969 dryas1975 1866 J. Crawfurd in Trans. Ethnol. Soc. London 4 1 The theory which supposes three different ages of civilisation, marked respectively by the use of arms and implements of stone, of bronze, and of iron, seems to have originated in the discoveries recently made by the examination of the refuse heaps of Denmark and the pile buildings of the Swiss lakes... There can be little doubt but that the three ages above indicated did really exist. 1944 V. G. Childe Progress & Archæol. i. 5 Of course Thomsen's three ‘Ages’ are just periods of this relative kind and would be better designated Stages. < as lemmas |
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