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1849 in archaeology
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1849 archaeology science
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1849.
Explorations
U.S. Army Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report.
U.S. Navy Capt. William F. Lynch identifies Tell el Kadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan.W. F. Lynch Narrative of the United States Expedition to the River Jordan and the Dead Sea https://archive.org/details/narrativeofunit00lync 1849 472 Richard Bentley London
Site of Uruk discovered by William Loftus.
Excavations
Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill.
Publications
Austen H. Layard's Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.
Finds
Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters.
Births
November 8 — Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (d. 1917)Maxime Collignon - Dictionary of Art Historians http://arthistorians.info/collignonl arthistorians.info 18 May 2017
December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (d. 1922)Riedel Franka Böck und Thomas Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft: Blut & Kreislaufsystem von der Antike zur Moderne 2013 epubli 9783844261844 18 https://books.google.com/books?id=efcSAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA18 de
See also
List of years in archaeology
1848 in archaeology
1850 in archaeology
References
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