1884 in archaeology

Overview of the events of 1884 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.

## Explorations

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* Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.[1]

## Excavations

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* October – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.[2]
* 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.[3]

## Finds

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* Winter – First burials of the Remedello culture.
* Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.

## Institutions

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* Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.[4]
* Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.[5]

## Publications

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* François Lenormant – 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

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* January 26 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).[6]
* February 1 – Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)[7]
* July 25 – Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)[8]

## References

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1. ^ Sebire, Heather (2009). "The Lukis family of Guernsey and antiquarian pursuits in Scotland". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 139: 123–166\. doi:10.9750/PSAS.139.123.166.
2. ^ Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
3. ^ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
4. ^ "Pitt Rivers Museum". www.culture24.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
5. ^ "Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: report on the papers of archaeologists and anthropologists". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
6. ^ "Roy Chapman Andrews". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
7. ^ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.
8. ^ "Davidson Black - Canadian anthropologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-05-31.

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