1886 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 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
- June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).[5]
References
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