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>It completely destroyed the anglo-centric epochism I was taught in school.

Could you elaborate on the worldview you were taught?

Not OP, but it sounds like a criticism of the Stone/Bronze/Iron age distinctions, which are themselves very Anglocentric in origin.

um, no.

There is nothing centered on England about (with open admiration) naming periods (from before the Angles even migrated to Brittania) of histories of other peoples in the Mediterranean region by their sequential metallurgical discoveries.

i'm flabbergasted.

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