1884 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.
Explorations
- Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.[1]
Excavations
- October â Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.[2]
- Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.
- Excavations at the Oracle of Apollo on Ptoion are begun by the French School at Athens.[3]
Finds
- Winter â First burials of the Remedello culture.
- Hittites' script identified on a monument at BoÄazkale discovered by William Wright.
Institutions
- Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.[4]
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.[5]
Publications
- François Lenormant â La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi dâun essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris).
Births
- January 26 â Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).[6]
- February 1 â Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)[7]
- July 25 â Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)[8]