1860 in archaeology
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1860 in archaeology
Explorations
- Ernest Renan visits the Roman temple of Bziza.
Excavations
- Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
- Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.
- Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.
Finds
- Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.[1]
Publications
- Evans, John (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint Implements in undisturbed Beds of Gravel, Sand, and Clay". Archaeologia. London. 38 (2): 280–307. doi:10.1017/s0261340900001454. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
- Prestwich, Joseph (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint-implements, associated with the Remains of Animals of Extinct Species in Beds of a late Geological Period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 150: 277–317. doi:10.1098/rstl.1860.0018. hdl:2027/chi.098241705.
Births
- July 15 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (d. 1946).
- November 8 - Francis J. Haverfield, English Romano-British archaeologist (d. 1919).
References
- Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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