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1884 in archaeology
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1884 archaeology science
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.Heather Sebire The Lukis family of Guernsey and antiquarian pursuits in Scotland Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland 139 2009 123–166 10.9750/PSAS.139.123.166
Excavations
October – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.M. W. Thompson General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century https://archive.org/details/generalpittriver0000thom registration Bradford-on-Avon Moonraker Press 1977 0-239-00162-1 96
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.The scientific work https://www.mthv.gr/en/the-museum/the-scientific-work/ Archaeological Museum of Thebes 2017-11-23
Finds
Winter – First burials of the Remedello culture.
Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.
Institutions
Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.Pitt Rivers Museum http://www.culture24.org.uk/se000393 www.culture24.org.uk 2017-05-27
Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: report on the papers of archaeologists and anthropologists http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/nra/lists/gb-1638-ms.collections.htm www.nationalarchives.gov.uk 3 January 2018
Publications
François Lenormant – fr La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris).
Births
January 26 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roy-Chapman-Andrews Roy Chapman Andrews Britannica.com 2017-05-27
February 1 – Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)Who Was Who 1941–1950 1980 Bloomsbury Publishing, London 0-7136-2131-1
July 25 – Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)Davidson Black - Canadian anthropologist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Davidson-Black Encyclopedia Britannica 2017-05-31 en
References
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