1865 in archaeology

none 1865 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1865. Explorations The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster. Excavations Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd. Publications Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam complete publication of Crania Britannica: delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British islands. John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.Palaeolithic, adj. and n. 3rd Oxford English Dictionary online version Oxford University Press http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/136182 2012-02-24 https://www.webcitation.org/65kLYSVHL?url=http://www.oed.com/;jsessionid=6590B9B41357E72B72FD9A83C4130F30?authRejection=true&url=%2Fview%2FEntry%2F136182 2012-02-26 live December 2011 Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes. Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization. Finds French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC. Events Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge. Palestine Exploration Fund is established.http://www.pef.org.uk/history The History of the PEF pef.org.uk 18 May 2017 Births June 22 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (d. 1945) August 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)https://www.britannica.com/biography/James-Henry-Breasted James Henry Breasted britannica.com 31 May 2017 Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952)Foucher, A. (Alfred) 1865-1952 http://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n83060502/ worldcat.org 2 June 2017 Deaths May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).Edwards Edward Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870 17 June 2010 Cambridge University Press 9781108014953 43 en May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788). See also Ancient Egypt / Egyptology References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1860s in archaeology Archaeology