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1884 in archaeology 
Summary
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.
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Explorations edit
- Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.[1]
Excavations edit
- October - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.[2]
- Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.
- Excavations at the Oracle of Apollo on Ptoion are begun by the French School at Athens.[3]
Finds edit
- Winter - First burials of the Remedello culture.
- Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.
Institutions edit
- Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.[4]
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.[5]
Publications edit
- François Lenormant - La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris).
Births edit
- January 26 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).[6]
- February 1 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)[7]
- July 25 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)[8]
References edit
- ^ Sebire, Heather (2009). "The Lukis family of Guernsey and antiquarian pursuits in Scotland". Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. 139: 123–166.
- ^ Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
- ^ "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
- ^ "Pitt Rivers Museum". www.culture24.org.uk. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ^ "Cambridge University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: report on the papers of archaeologists and anthropologists". www.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Roy Chapman Andrews". Britannica.com. Retrieved 2017-05-27.
- ^ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.
- ^ "Davidson Black - Canadian anthropologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017-05-31.