Prehistory and Protohistory in India and Pakistan c4.s23.5

c4.s23.5

Enough was done by THOMSEN, WORSAAE and NILSSON to chalk out the road on which prehistoric archaeology was to proceed. Subsequent scholars by splitting up the Stone Age into Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic, and dividing still further the first into two or three periods, as knowledge grew, or redefining the Three Age concept as technological stages and associating with each stage the economic and social status of man, have merely incorporated the new ideas which have dominated the world since the Russian Revolution. Even the great interest in Denmark's past, WORSAAE attributed to the French Revolution, for, "with a greater respect for the political rights of the people, there awakened in the nations themselves a deeper interest in their own history, language and nationality."