1881 in archaeology

The year 1881 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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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]
• June 21 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1800)

References

1. "Olympia". britannica.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
2. 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.
3. Forest and Stream (New York) 1881-05-26 16:326; The Builder (London) 1881-08-06 41:164.
4. Briquelet, Kate (15 June 2014). "How Cleopatra's Needle got to Central Park". New York Post. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
5. "Hetty Goldman - Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
6. "Frances Stackhouse". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2017.