“It’s a point of view not a fact!
Hope you get this and that!
Tis not your or my story!
It’s just a complicated history!”
Did you know that one of the most favored classification system in history or archaeology was actually the given by one who had no knowledge of them at first!?
read on!
Growing up one of the most boring subject those days was the History!
Give me some mathematics or chemistry or even physics and I would drool! But the parrot like memorisation of History was so boring and lifeless!
I used to think why must we know history! Now my favourite is history! I guess that is growing up! Of course when I start hating history again then I would have become one!
On top of all that the history we would be taught those days would be the comfortable history! The compromise which we have been allowed to read!
But the dull names and the places and the wars used to give me migraine those days! To cover the stages and age of so many people and time was a big task! Even now the things like first battle of or the second war between gives me the chills! I used to think all the kings would ever do was fight! Most would die young!
The time they reach the peak of their life and most probably die or get killed by another to start the cycle all over again!
Early thirties we would have started out career and these ‘Historical’ figures by that time would have completed their lifetime!
In an Archie comic story the gals finally cracked the history code when they started reading about it like ‘gossip’! Which in fact it is! Since what actually happened no one knows! All we know even if there are proofs and data for support, are only speculative!
History is always MADE up! There will be a narrative and we would follow it that is all! What actually happened would be known only to those who were present there and even then what they see or feel is their own point of view!
This complexity of history makes it so interesting to read and know nowadays!
Now the biggest classification of the history which we all have read over and over again was actually done by a guy who was doing a free internship!
The story as said in one of Carl Sagan’s books is that the Danish country in an attempt to uplift the country image wanted to build a museum and so collected artifacts all over the country and dumped them in a big room!
Then an an unpaid intern with no knowledge of archaeology was given the task of organizing them!
After one year of breaking his head he divided them into stone, bronze and iron! Little did he know that he accidentally stumbled upon the classification which historian use to this day!
Yes! The stone, bronze and the iron age!
The intern who later was regarded as a great historian because of this was C. J. Thomsen! Thomsen also wrote one of the first systematic treatises on gold bracteates of the Migration period. Thomsen’s study of artifacts within the Copenhagen museum were based on associations between stylistic change, decoration and context; he recognised the importance of examining objects from “closed finds”, allowing him to determine the associations of common artifacts for various periods (stone – bronze – iron). His results were published in the Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed (Guideline to Nordic Antiquity) in 1836!
Very soon all over the world, museums and historians picked up this classification and now this is the standard classification used to describe the three ‘ages’! That is historical! Historical also was the contribution of celebrity V. Shantaram or Shantaram Bapu!
A quick sketch with another historical piece! A hero pen! This pen was reserved for special occasions only and how it used to drink ink like a thirsty camel! Done without any correction in less than five minutes since it was a busy day!
Now historically you may say Shubh ratri and sleep!
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