1730s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
- Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
Finds
- 1738: First formal excavations of Herculaneum, by Roque JoaquÃn de Alcubierre sponsored by Charles III of Spain[1]
Publications
- 1732: John Horsley - Britannia Romana (posthumous).
- 1735: Prospero Alpini - Historiæ Ãgypti Naturalis (posthumous).
- 1736: Francis Drake - Eboracum (Roman York)[2]
Other events
- 1731: December 8 - Antiquarian John Freeman buries a 'time capsule' in the grounds of his house at Fawley Court in England.
- 1734: November 12 - Nicholas Mahudel reads a paper to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, introducing the concept of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.[3]
Births
- 1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (d. 1803)
- 1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (d. 1810)[4]
- 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin, Alsatian archaeologist (d. 1806)
Deaths
- 1732: January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (b. c.1685)