1864 in archaeology
1864 in archaeology.
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Excavations
- March - Danes Graves, Arras culture barrows in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England, by Canon William Greenwell.[1]
Finds
- Approximate date - Vénus impudique, the first Paleolithic sculptural representation of a woman discovered in modern times, is found by Paul Hurault, 8th Marquis de Vibraye, at Laugerie-Basse, one of the Prehistoric Sites and Decorated Caves of the Vézère Valley in southwestern France.
Publications
- William Collings Lukis - "Danish Cromlechs and Burial Customs compared with those of Brittany, the Channel Islands, and Great Britain". The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine 8: pp. 145–69.
- Henry Christy publishes the first results of his joint explorations with Édouard Lartet of caves in the valley of the Vézère, in southern France.[2][3]
- Édouard Lartet - Revue archéologique.
Births
- July 14 - Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (d. 1943)
References
- Stead, I. M. (1979). Arras Culture. York: Yorkshire Philosophical Society. ISBN 0902357034.
- Comptes rendus de l'Académie des sciences 29 February 1864; Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London 21 June 1864.
- Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (subscription or UK public library membership required)
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