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.

Excavations

• October - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.
• Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.

Finds

• Winter - First burials of the Remedello culture.

Publications

• 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).

Miscellaneous

• Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.

Births

• January 26 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (died 1960).