1600s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

1 Explorations
2 Excavations
3 Finds
4 Other events
5 Births
6 Deaths

Explorations

Excavations

Finds

The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn c.1600 (discovered in 1977 by Anne Campbell Mcinnes).

Other events

1603: In Holland, Frederik de Houtman publishes a grammar and dictionary of Malay and Malagasy, along with a treatise describing the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
1609: A Dutch VOC ship built in 1601 or 1602, and loaded with 18000 zinc ingots, is wrecked in 1609 off Gabon, West Africa (discovered in 1985, excavated by Michel L'Hour).

Births

c.1660: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (d. 1661)
c.1602: Athanasius Kircher, German Jewish orientalist (d. 1680)

Deaths

Preceded by 1590s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1600s	Succeeded by 1610s in archaeology