1865 in archaeology explained

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1865.

Explorations

• The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster.

Excavations

• Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd.

Publications

• Joseph Barnard Davis and John Thurnam complete publication of Crania Britannica: delineations and descriptions of the skulls of the aboriginal and early inhabitants of the British islands.
• John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.^[1]
• Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes.
• Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization.

Finds

• French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.

Events

• Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
• Palestine Exploration Fund is established.^[2]

Births

• June 22 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (d. 1945)
• August 27 - James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (d. 1935)^[3]
• Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist of Buddhism (d. 1952)^[4]

Deaths

• May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).^[5]
• May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788).

See also

• Ancient Egypt / Egyptology

Notes and References

1. Web site: Palaeolithic, adj. and n. . 3rd . Oxford English Dictionary online version . Oxford University Press . 2012-02-24 . https://www.webcitation.org/65kLYSVHL?url=http://www.oed.com/;jsessionid=6590B9B41357E72B72FD9A83C4130F30?authRejection=true&url=%2Fview%2FEntry%2F136182 . 2012-02-26 . live . December 2011 .
2. Web site: The History of the PEF. pef.org.uk. 18 May 2017.
3. Web site: James Henry Breasted. britannica.com. 31 May 2017.
4. Web site: Foucher, A. (Alfred) 1865-1952. worldcat.org. 2 June 2017.
5. Book: Edwards. Edward. Lives of the Founders of the British Museum: With Notices of Its Chief Augmentors and Other Benefactors, 1570-1870. 17 June 2010. Cambridge University Press. 9781108014953. 43. en.