Английская Википедия:1881 in archaeology
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Шаблон:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1881.
Explorations
- Alfred Maudslay begins his thorough examination of Quiriguá.
Excavations
- Timgad, Algeria, is excavated.
- The excavations at Olympia, Greece which began in 1875 and were led by Ernst Curtius end.[1]
- Mount Nemrut, Turkey, is excavated by German engineer Karl Sester.
- Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is investigated by Swiss-born American archaeologist Adolph Bandelier.
- Pyramid of Unas in Egypt is investigated by French archaeologist Gaston Maspero.
Finds
- March - Augustus Pitt Rivers finds palaeolithic flints in concreted gravels of the Nile terraces near Thebes.[2]
- "Official" discovery of collective tomb DB320 at Deir el-Bahari in Egypt.
- Capt. H. L. Wells, RE, finds Qadamgah in Fars Province, Persia (Iran).
- The birch bark Bakhshali manuscript, incorporating perhaps the earliest known use of mathematical zero, is unearthed near Bakhshali in British India.
Publications
- John Evans - The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland.
- H. A. Fletcher - "The archaeology of the west Cumberland iron trade". Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Archaeological Society 5:5–21.
- Possible earliest use of the term "Industrial archaeology" in the English language.[3]
Other events
- February 22 - 'Cleopatra's Needle' erected in Central Park, New York.[4]
Births
- December 19 - Hetty Goldman, American archaeologist (d. 1972)[5]
Deaths
- January 24 - Frances Stackhouse Acton, English botanist, archaeologist, artist and writer (b. 1794)[6]
- May 19 - Joseph Barnard Davis, English craniologist (b. 1801)
- June 21 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1800)
References
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite book
- ↑ Forest and Stream (New York) 1881-05-26 16:326; The Builder (London) 1881-08-06 41:164.
- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
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- ↑ Шаблон:Cite web
