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The word förhistorisk, ‘prehistoric’, in Swedish

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Stig Welinder
Stig Welinder*
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Uppsala University, Gustavianum, S-752 20 Uppsala, Sweden
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Extract

Another contribution to discovering the history and origin of words for ‘prehistory’ comes from Sweden, a critical land for 19th-century archaeological ideas.

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Antiquity , Volume 65 , Issue 247 , June 1991 , pp. 295 - 296
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1991

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