1881 in archaeology
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The year 1881 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
- Alfred Maudslay begins his thorough examination of Quiriguá.
Excavations
Finds
- March - Augustus Pitt Rivers finds palaeolithic flints in concreted gravels of the Nile terraces near Thebes.[1]
- The birch bark Bakhshali manuscript, incorporating perhaps the earliest known use of mathematical zero, is unearthed near Bakhshali in British India.
Publications
- John Evans - The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland.
- H. A. Fletcher - "The archaeology of the west Cumberland iron trade". Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Archaeological Society 5:5–21.
- Possible earliest use of the term "Industrial archaeology" in the English language.[2]
Other events
- February 22 - 'Cleopatra's Needle' erected in Central Park, New York.
Births
Deaths
- January 24 - Frances Stackhouse Acton, English botanist, archaeologist, artist and writer (born 1794)
- June 21 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (born 1800)
References
- ↑ Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
- ↑ Forest and Stream (New York) 1881-05-26 16:326; The Builder (London) 1881-08-06 41:164.
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