1884 in archaeology

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The year 1884 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations[]

Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.^[1]

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]

Winter - First burials of the Remedello culture.
Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.

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]

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).

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]

^ 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.