Who were Christian Jurgensen Thomsen’s students during the pioneering or speculative period? Daniel

I’m not sure what you mean by the ‘speculative period’ – Thomsen, a Danish archaeologist, was the first to divide up prehistory into three ages, of Stone, Bronze and Iron (the ‘Three Age System’). The best known people he taught and influenced were probably Worsaae, Hildebrand and Montelius, Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae succeeded Thomsen as Director of the National Museum of Denmark and was important in developing scientific archaeology. Bror Emil Hildebrand introduced the Three Age System into Sweden and Oscar Montelius was another Swedish archaeologist who went on to sub-divide Thomsen’s three ages and devise the idea of ‘seriation’, using objects to provide more accurate dating. So Thomsen had quite an effect on the developing science of archaeology.