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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1848.

Explorations

  • First scientific expedition visits Tikal, Guatemala

Publications

  • Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis
  • First volume of Austen H. Layard's Nineveh and its Remains
  • Final volume of Lord Kingsborough's 9 volume Antiquities of Mexico

Finds

  • By March 3 - Gibraltar 1, a female skull from Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar, later identified as Neanderthal, is found by Capt. Edmund Flint RN
  • May 3 - The Benty Grange hanging bowl and Benty Grange helmet from a tumulus on Benty Grange farm in the Peak District of England
  • Neolithic hoard at East Ayton in England

References

See also

  • List of years in archaeology
  • 1847 in archaeology
  • 1849 in archaeology