1849 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1849.

Explorations

• U.S. Army Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report.
• U.S. Navy Capt. William F. Lynch identifies Tell el Kadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan.
• Site of Uruk discovered by William Loftus.

Excavations

• Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill.

Publications

• Austen H. Layard's Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
• Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.

Finds

• Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters.

Births

• November 8 — Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (d. 1917)
• December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (d. 1922)

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1848 in archaeology
• 1850 in archaeology

References