The novel Ayodhya Alliance tells us about this amazing technology in ancient times where the metal was made with a secret process which made sure that the iron remains rust and corrosion free for ages! A feat even difficult now with modern methods!
Iron was one of the foremost metal to deal with! It was the pride of the Iron age!
But did you know that even the classification was actually created by a intern without any knowledge of either history or metallurgy!?
The story goes 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!
C. J. Thomsen 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! The stone, bronze and the iron age!
Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian and the first curator of the National Museum of Denmark, developed this system in the early 19th century while cataloging the museum’s large collection of artifacts.
He observed that artifacts made of stone consistently appeared in the oldest contexts, followed by those of bronze, and finally those of iron, demonstrating a progression in technological development!
The classification is based on the dominant material used for weapons and cutting implements during each period:
Stone Age: A period when tools and weapons were primarily made of stone, wood, bone, or similar materials, and knowledge of metals was very limited or absent.
Bronze Age: A subsequent period characterized by the use of bronze (a copper/tin alloy) for tools and weapons, with little to no knowledge of iron.
Iron Age: The most recent prehistoric period, where iron was widely used for the articles for which it was suited, superseding bronze!
Thomsen’s system was revolutionary because it established a scientific basis for the relative dating of prehistory, which had previously relied heavily on mythological or textual sources@
His methods, which included the study of associations between artifacts in “closed finds” (artifacts found together in the same layer or grave), allowed for a systematic and evidence-based ordering of the past@
The principles of Thomsen’s classification were published in his influential 1836 book, Ledetraad til Nordisk Oldkyndighed (A Guide to Northern Antiquities!)
The book was not in English!
The classification system has actually been mentioned couple of fmaous novels like the in the novel A Journey to the Center of the Earth (French: Voyage au centre de la Terre) by Jules Verne! Even that was originally written in French!
This proves that knowledge is not limited to one language! Also proving that just because someone is good in English does not make him or her ‘knowledgeable’!
The system provided a foundational structure that remains the basis for much of the Old World’s prehistoric chronology, though it has since been refined with further subdivisions (such as the Palaeolithic and Neolithic periods within the Stone Age)!
The end summary without digressing though is that just because you are a lowly paid intern working on a job of which you have no idea, does not mean that it is the end of the world! You can still make history!
Historical also were movies made by V Shantharam!
Shubh ratri!
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