1851 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1851.
Excavations
- Some excavation at Susa by William Loftus, who identifies the location.
Publications
- J. Collingwood Bruce's The Roman Wall: a historical, topographical, and descriptive account of the barrier of the lower isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway.
- Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz and Johann Jakob von Tschudi's Antigüedades peruanas, published in Vienna, the first scientific work on Peruvian archaeology.[1]
- Daniel Wilson's The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, which introduces the word prehistoric into the English archaeological vocabulary.
Miscellaneous
- John Disney endows the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, first held by John Howard Marsden
Births
- 29 June: Jane Dieulafoy, born Jeanne Magre, French archaeologist, excavator of Susa, explorer, novelist and journalist (d. 1916)[2]
- 8 July: Arthur Evans, English archaeologist best known for discovering the palace of Knossos on Crete (d. 1941)[3]
References
- ↑ Castro-Klarén, Sara (2003). "The Nation in Ruins: Archaeology and the Rise of the Nation". In Castro-Klarén, Sara; Chasteen, John Charles (eds.). Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America. Washington, D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press. pp. 188–189. ISBN 978-0-8018-7852-7.
- ↑ "Dieulafoy, Jane et Marcel". www.inha.fr (in French). 28 January 2009. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ↑ "The remarkable life of archaeologist and adventurer Arthur Evans". The Telegraph. 6 October 2015. Retrieved 18 May 2017.