1877 in archaeology
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"Gateway of the Sun" at Tiahuanaco, as published in Ephraim G. Squier's Peru: Incidents of Travel
The year 1877 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
- Artist and photographer William Henry Jackson participates in the Hayden Survey of the Western United States, producing maps of Chaco Canyon, but no photographs due to technical problems.
Excavations
- French diplomat and archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec begins excavation at Girsu in Mesopotamia (which he believes to be Lagash).
- George Smith excavates Later Stone Age tools in caves near Smithfield, Free State.
Finds
- May 8 - Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles) first uncovered at Olympia by German archaeologist Ernst Curtius.
Publications
- Canon William Greenwell - British Barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England; together with description of figures of skulls, general remarks on prehistoric crania, and an appendix by George Rolleston.
- John Postlethwaite - Mines and Mining in the Lake District.
- Ephraim G. Squier - Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas.
Births
- June 16 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist
- July 29 - Edward Thurlow Leeds, English archaeologist of the Anglo-Saxons
Deaths
- October 17 - Johann Carl Fuhlrott, discoverer of Neanderthal Man
See also
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