1846 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1846.
Explorations
- Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt.
- Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.
Excavations
- The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon",[1] an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).
Finds
- The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.
Events
- August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C.[2]
- The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.
- The French School at Athens is founded.
Publications
- Jacques Boucher de CrèvecÅur de Perthes first publishes his discoveries over the previous two decades of a worked flint implement in the context of elephant and rhinoceros remains in the gravels of the Somme valley
- John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum
- Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published
Births
- February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)
