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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1846.

Explorations

  • Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt.
  • Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.

Excavations

  • The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon", an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).

Finds

  • The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.

Events

  • August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C.
  • The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.
  • The French School at Athens is founded.

Publications

  • Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes first publishes his discoveries over the previous two decades of a worked flint implement in the context of elephant and rhinoceros remains in the gravels of the Somme valley
  • John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum
  • Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published

Births

  • February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)

Deaths

See also

  • List of years in archaeology
  • 1845 in archaeology
  • 1847 in archaeology

References