1860 in archaeology

Explorations

Excavations

• Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
• Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.

Finds

• douard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.^[1]

Publications

Births

• July 15 - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (died 1946).
• November 8 - Francis J. Haverfield, English Romano-British archaeologist (died 1919).

Deaths

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1859 in archaeology
• 1861 in archaeology

References

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