JENS JACOB ASMUSSEN WORSAAE

'Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae' (14 March, 1821 – 15 August, 1885) was a Danish archaeologist, historian and politician, who succeeded Christian Jürgensen Thomsen as director of the National Museum of Denmark and played a key role in the foundation of scientific archaeology.
He was the first to excavate and use stratigraphy to prove C.J. Thomsen's sequence of the Three-age system: Stone, Bronze, Iron.
He was Kultus Minister of Denmark in the Cabinet of Fonnesbech from 1874 to 1875.

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★ Primary laws of archaeology