1886 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.
Explorations
Excavations
- October 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.[1]
Finds
- September – Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.[2]
- The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt.[3]
- Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich.
- Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece.
Events
- June 10 – Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.
Births
- October 28 – O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957).[4]
Deaths
- January 9 – James Fergusson, Scottish-born antiquarian, architect and merchant (b. 1808).
- June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).[5]
References
- ↑ Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
- ↑ Marshall, Ingeborg (1998). A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. McGill-Queen's University Press.
- ↑ "Neanderthal Man". Encyclopedia Britannica (15th ed.). 1982.
- ↑ "Aerial Photographs - O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957)". Ashmolean Museum. Retrieved 3 June 2017.
- ↑ Press, Oxford University (2012). Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. OUP USA. p. 615. ISBN 9780199923052.