1864 in archaeology

none 1864 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1864. Excavations March – Danes Graves, Arras culture barrows in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, by Canon William Greenwell.Stead I. M. 1979 Arras Culture Yorkshire Philosophical Society York 0902357034 Finds A carving on mammoth ivory of a woolly mammoth is found by Édouard Lartet in Abri de la Madeleine cave in France, the first widely accepted evidence for the coexistence of humans with extinct prehistoric animals and the first contemporary depiction of such a creature known to modern science.Lister A. Bahn P. Mammoths – Giants of the Ice Age Frances Lincoln 2007 3rd London 978-0-520-26160-0 30155747 116–117 Approximate date - Vénus impudique, the first Paleolithic sculptural representation of a woman discovered in modern times, is found by Paul Hurault, 8th Marquis de Vibraye, at Laugerie-Basse, one of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley in southwestern France. Publications John Evans – The Coins of the Ancient Britons William Collings Lukis – "Danish Cromlechs and Burial Customs compared with those of Brittany, the Channel Islands, and Great Britain". The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 8: pp. 145–69. Henry Christy publishes the first results of his joint explorations with Édouard Lartet of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 29 February 1864; Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 21 June 1864.W. J. Harrison Christy, Henry (1810–1865) 2004 http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/5375 2011-05-05 10.1093/ref:odnb/5375 Édouard Lartet – Revue archéologique. Births July 14 – Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (d. 1943) Deaths Deaths in 1864 Category:1864 deaths References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1860s in archaeology Archaeology