Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae
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Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (14 March 1821 – 15 August 1885) was a Danish archaeologist 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.
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