1834 in archaeology explained

The year 1834 in archaeology

Excavations

• Excavations made at Meroë by Giuseppe Ferlini
• Recovery of guns and other material from the wreck of in the Solent by Charles Anthony Deane and his brother John begins

Explorations

• Juan Galindo explores the Maya ruins of Copan
• French scholar Charles Texier finds the first Hittite site but does not identify it as such^{[1] [2]}

Miscellaneous

• John Clayton begins to safeguard Hadrian's Wall

Births

• April 30 - John Lubbock, English prehistorian (d. 1913)^[3]

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1833 in archaeology
• 1835 in archaeology

Notes and References

1. Erimtan, Can. 2008. Hittites, Ottomans and Turks: Ağaoğlu Ahmed Bey and the Kemalist Construction of Turkish Nationhood in Anatolia. https://web.archive.org/web/20180922104515/https://www.jstor.org/stable/20455417. 2018-09-22. Anatolian Studies. 58. 141–171. 10.1017/S0066154600008711 . 20455417 . 163040610 . live.
2. Texier. Charles. Rapport lu, le 15 mai 1835, à l'Académie royale des Inscriptions et Belles-lettres de l'Institut, sur un envoi fait par M. Texier, et contenant les dessins de bas-reliefs découverts par lui près du village de Bogaz-Keui, dans l'Asie mineure. Journal des Savants. 1835. 368–376. Report read on 15 May 1835 to the Royal Academy of Inscriptions and Belle-lettres of the Institute, on a dispatch made by Mr. Texier and containing drawings of bas-reliefs discovered by him near the village of Bogaz-Keui in Asia Minor. fr. 2018-10-10. https://web.archive.org/web/20190428022424/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015036636960;view=1up;seq=372. 2019-04-28. live.
3. Book: Patton. Mark. Science, Politics and Business in the Work of Sir John Lubbock: A Man of Universal Mind. 2007 . Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 9780754653219. 15. en.