1886 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.
Explorations
Excavations
- October 4 â Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.[1]
Finds
- September â Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.[2]
- The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt.[3]
- Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich.
- Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece.
Events
- June 10 â Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.
Births
- October 28 â O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957).[4]
Deaths
- January 9 â James Fergusson, Scottish-born antiquarian, architect and merchant (b. 1808).
- June 5 â Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).[5]