1886 in archaeology explained

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.

Excavations

• October 4 - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.^[1]

Finds

• September - Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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).^[4]

Deaths

• June 5 - Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).^[5]

Notes and References

1. Book: Thompson, M. W.. General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. registration. Bradford-on-Avon. Moonraker Press. 1977. 0-239-00162-1. 96.
2. Book: Marshall, Ingeborg. A History and Ethnography of the Beothuk. McGill-Queen's University Press. 1998.
3. Encyclopedia: Encyclopedia Britannica. 1982. Neanderthal Man. 15th.
4. Web site: Aerial Photographs - O.G.S. Crawford (1886-1957). Ashmolean Museum. 3 June 2017.
5. Book: Press. Oxford University. Benezit Dictionary of British Graphic Artists and Illustrators. 2012. OUP USA. 9780199923052. 615. en.