1848 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1848.
Explorations
Excavations
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Publications
- Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis[1]
- First volume of Austen H. Layard's Nineveh and its Remains
- Final volume of Lord Kingsborough's 9 volume Antiquities of Mexico
Finds
- By March 3 - Gibraltar 1, a female skull from Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar, later identified as Neanderthal, is found by Capt. Edmund Flint RN
- May 3 - The Benty Grange hanging bowl and Benty Grange helmet from a tumulus on Benty Grange farm in the Peak District of England
- Neolithic hoard at East Ayton in England
Awards
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Miscellaneous
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Births
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Deaths
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References
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