1834 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1834.
Excavations
- Excavations made at Meroë by Giuseppe Ferlini
- Recovery of guns and other material from the wreck of Template:HMS in the Solent by Charles Anthony Deane and his brother John begins
Explorations
- Juan Galindo explores the Maya ruins of Copan
- French scholar Charles Texier finds the first Hittite site but does not identify it as such[1][2]
Finds
Miscellaneous
- John Clayton begins to safeguard Hadrian's Wall
Births
- April 30 - John Lubbock, English prehistorian (d. 1913)[3]