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1851 in archaeology
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1851 archaeology science
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1851.
Excavations
Some excavation at Susa by William Loftus, who identifies the location.
Publications
J. Collingwood Bruce's The Roman Wall: a historical, topographical, and descriptive account of the barrier of the lower isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway.
Mariano Eduardo de Rivero y Ustáriz and Johann Jakob von Tschudi's Antigüedades peruanas, published in Vienna, the first scientific work on Peruvian archaeology.Castro-Klarén Sara The Nation in Ruins: Archaeology and the Rise of the Nation Castro-Klarén Sara Chasteen John Charles Beyond Imagined Communities: Reading and Writing the Nation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America Woodrow Wilson Center Press Washington, D.C. 2003 188–189 978-0-8018-7852-7
Daniel Wilson's The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland, which introduces the word prehistoric into the English archaeological vocabulary.
Miscellaneous
John Disney endows the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, first held by John Howard Marsden
Births
29 June: Jane Dieulafoy, born Jeanne Magre, French archaeologist, excavator of Susa, explorer, novelist and journalist (d. 1916)Dieulafoy, Jane et Marcel https://www.inha.fr/fr/ressources/publications/publications-numeriques/dictionnaire-critique-des-historiens-de-l-art/dieulafoy-jane-et-marcel.html www.inha.fr 9 October 2017 fr 28 January 2009
8 July: Arthur Evans, English archaeologist best known for discovering the palace of Knossos on Crete (d. 1941)The remarkable life of archaeologist and adventurer Arthur Evans https://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/archaeologist-adventurer-arthur-evans-born/ The Telegraph 6 October 2015 18 May 2017
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