1860 in archaeology

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1860 in archaeology

Excavations

Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.
Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.

Finds

Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.^[1]

Publications

Evans, John (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint Implements in undisturbed Beds of Gravel, Sand, and Clay". Archaeologia. London. 38: 280–307. doi:10.1017/s0261340900001454. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
Prestwich, Joseph (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint-implements, associated with the Remains of Animals of Extinct Species in Beds of a late Geological Period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne" (PDF). Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 150: 277–317. doi:10.1098/rstl.1860.0018. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-24.

Births

July 15 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (died 1946).
November 8 - Francis J. Haverfield, English Romano-British archaeologist (died 1919).

See also

References

↑ Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)

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