1865 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1865.
Explorations
- The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster.
Excavations
- Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd.
Publications
- Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam complete publication of Crania Britannica: delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British islands.
- John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.[1]
- Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes.
- Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization.
Finds
- French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.
Events
- Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
- Palestine Exploration Fund is established.[2]
Births
- June 22 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (d. 1945)
- August 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)[3]
- Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952)[4]
Deaths
- May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).[5]
- May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788).
See also
References
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