1886 in archaeology

none thumb | right | Dwelling at Te Wairoa, buried during the 1886 eruption of Mount Tarawera 1886 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886. Explorations Excavations October 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.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 Finds September – Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk Ingeborg Marshall McGill-Queen's University Press 1998 The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt.Encyclopedia Britannica 1982 Neanderthal Man 15th Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich. Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece. Events June 10 – Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption. Births October 28 – O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957).https://britisharchaeology.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/aerial-photos/crawford.html Aerial Photographs - O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957) Ashmolean Museum 3 June 2017 Deaths January 9 – James Fergusson, Scottish-born antiquarian, architect and merchant (b. 1808). June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).Press Oxford University Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators 2012 OUP USA 9780199923052 615 https://books.google.com/books?id=05C02RhJZCkC en References Category:Archaeology by year Category:1880s in archaeology Archaeology