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1840 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1840. Explorations * John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore ruins of the Maya civilization including Quiriguá, Q'umarkaj, Palenque, and Uxmal. Publications * Charles Roach Smith - ''Collectanea Antiqua'', vol. 1. Finds * Cuerdale Hoard discovered by stoneworkers in Lancashire, England. Births *February 7 - Charles Warren, British Biblical archaeologist (d. 1927) *March 26 - George Smith, British Assyriologist (d. 1876) *August 6 - Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, Swiss-born New World archaeologist (d. 1914) See also * List of years in archaeology * 1839 in archaeology * 1841 in archaeology Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1841. Explorations Excavations * Kyriakos Pittakis carries out the first excavations at Mycenae. Publications * '' Biblical Researches in Palestine, the Sinai, Petrae and Adjacent ... References {{reflist 1840s archaeological di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1927 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1927. Explorations * Excavations * Large scale excavations begin at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China under Canadian paleoanthropologist Davidson Black with support from the Rockefeller Foundation. * The Swedish Cyprus Expedition begins 3½ years of excavations under Einar Gjerstad. * Excavations at Skara Brae begin under V. Gordon Childe (completed in 1930). * Excavations at Tepe Gawra begin by an American team under Ephraim Avigdor Speiser. * Pločnik archaeological site discovered in southern Serbia, with findings of the Vinca culture (5500 BC). * Excavations begin at Garðar Cathedral Ruins. Finds * Davidson Black's excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China yield a human tooth that he proposed belonged to a new species that he names '' Sinanthropus pekinensis''. * Skeleton of Asselar man discovered by Théodore Monod and Wladimir Besnard in the Adrar des Ifoghas. * Kents Cavern 4 maxilla found ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1840s Archaeological Discoveries
__NOTOC__ Year 184 ( CLXXXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Eggius and Aelianus (or, less frequently, year 937 ''Ab urbe condita''). The denomination 184 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years. Events By place China * The Yellow Turban Rebellion and Liang Province Rebellion break out in China. * The Disasters of the Partisan Prohibitions ends. * Zhang Jue leads the peasant revolt against Emperor Ling of Han of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Heading for the capital of Luoyang, his massive and undisciplined army (360,000 men), burns and destroys government offices and outposts. * June – Ling of Han places his brother-in-law, He Jin, in command of the imperial army and sends them to attack the Yellow Turban rebels. * Winter – Zha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1841 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1841. Explorations Excavations * Kyriakos Pittakis carries out the first excavations at Mycenae. Publications * '' Biblical Researches in Palestine, the Sinai, Petrae and Adjacent Regions'' by Edward Robinson, based on his survey conducted over several years, proposes identification of Biblical names with modern sites. * ''Incidents of Travel in Central America, Chiapas, and Yucatan'' by John Lloyd Stephens, illustrated by Frederick Catherwood, provides much more accurate information on the ruins of the Maya civilization than previous publications and generates international interest in the subject. Births *Alexander Stuart Murray - Scottish archaeologist and museum curator (died 1904) Deaths See also * List of years in archaeology * 1840 in archaeology * 1842 in archaeology 1842 in archaeology Explorations * Site of Masada discovered. * Karl Richard Lepsius begins an expedition to Egypt and the Sudan co ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1839. Explorations * John Lloyd Stephens and Frederick Catherwood explore the Maya ruins of Copan. Excavations * English archeologist A. H. Layard begins excavations of Nineveh. *First excavation of Roman villa at Rudston in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. *First excavation of Roman villa at Oplontis in Italy begins. Publications Births * January 4 - Carl Humann, German archaeologist (d. 1896) * July 12 - Jean Baptiste Holzmayer, German archaeologist (d. 1890) Deaths * August 28 - William Smith, English geologist (b. 1769) * Juan Galindo, Irish-born Central American soldier, governor and explorer (b. 1802 Events January–March * January 5 – Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin, British ambassador to the Ottoman Empire, begins removal of the Elgin Marbles from the Parthenon in Athens, claiming they were at risk of destruction during the Ot ...) See also * List of years in archaeology ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Years In Archaeology
A ''list'' is any set of items in a row. List or lists may also refer to: People * List (surname) Organizations * List College, an undergraduate division of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America * SC Germania List, German rugby union club Other uses * Angle of list, the leaning to either port or starboard of a ship * List (information), an ordered collection of pieces of information ** List (abstract data type), a method to organize data in computer science * List on Sylt, previously called List, the northernmost village in Germany, on the island of Sylt * ''List'', an alternative term for ''roll'' in flight dynamics * To ''list'' a building, etc., in the UK it means to designate it a listed building that may not be altered without permission * Lists (jousting), the barriers used to designate the tournament area where medieval knights jousted * ''The Book of Lists'', an American series of books with unusual lists See also * The List (other) * Listing (di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1914 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1914. Explorations * January - T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley undertake an archaeological survey of the Negev. * March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband William Scoresby Routledge arrive on Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departing August 1915). Excavations * Katherine Routledge commences excavation at key Easter Island sites including Rano Raraku and Orongo. * George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Howard Carter first excavate in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt. * Hiram Bingham III resumes excavations around Machu Picchu in Peru. * Excavations begin at Traprain Law in Scotland. * Tinkinswood Neolithic megalithic chamber tomb in South Wales excavated. * Warham Camp Iron Age circular hill fort in Norfolk, England first excavated. Finds Publications * John L. Myres - '' Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus'' ( Metropolitan Museum of Art, New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeologist
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes over 99% of the human past, from the Paleolithic until the adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New World
The term ''New World'' is often used to mean the majority of Earth's Western Hemisphere, specifically the Americas."America." ''The Oxford Companion to the English Language'' (). McArthur, Tom, ed., 1992. New York: Oxford University Press, p. 33: "[16c: from the feminine of ''Americus'', the Latinized first name of the explorer Amerigo Vespucci (1454–1512). The name ''America'' first appeared on a map in 1507 by the German cartographer Martin Waldseemüller, referring to the area now called Brazil]. Since the 16c, a name of the western hemisphere, often in the plural ''Americas'' and more or less synonymous with ''the New World''. Since the 18c, a name of the United States of America. The second sense is now primary in English: ... However, the term is open to uncertainties: ..." The term gained prominence in the early 16th century, during Europe's Age of Discovery, shortly after the Italian explorer Amerigo Vespucci concluded that America (now often called ''the Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Switzerland
). Swiss law does not designate a ''capital'' as such, but the federal parliament and government are installed in Bern, while other federal institutions, such as the federal courts, are in other cities (Bellinzona, Lausanne, Luzern, Neuchâtel, St. Gallen a.o.). , coordinates = , largest_city = Zürich , official_languages = , englishmotto = "One for all, all for one" , religion_year = 2020 , religion_ref = , religion = , demonym = , german: Schweizer/Schweizerin, french: Suisse/Suissesse, it, svizzero/svizzera or , rm, Svizzer/Svizra , government_type = Federalism, Federal assembly-independent Directorial system, directorial republic with elements of a direct democracy , leader_title1 = Federal Council (Switzerland), Federal Council , leader_name1 = , leader_title2 = , leader_name2 = Walter Thurnherr , legislature = Fe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier
Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier (August 6, 1840March 18, 1914) was a Swiss-born American archaeologist who particularly explored the indigenous cultures of the American Southwest, Mexico, and South America. He immigrated to the United States with his family as a youth and made his life there, abandoning the family business to study in the new fields of archeology and ethnology. Bandelier National Monument in New Mexico was named for him, as his studies established the significance of this area in the Jemez Mountains for archeological and historic preservation of sites of Ancestral Puebloans dating to two eras from 1150 to 1600 CE. Life Bandelier was born in Bern, Switzerland. As a youth, he emigrated to the United States with his family, which settled in Highland, Illinois, a community established by other Swiss immigrants. He labored unhappily in the family business as a young man. He became acquainted with the pioneering anthropologist Lewis Henry Morgan of New York, who ser ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1876 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1876. Excavations * Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann. Finds * The " Mask of Agamemnon" found at Mycenae by Heinrich Schliemann. Later in the year Schliemann supposedly telegraphs a Greek newspaper "I have gazed on the face of Agamemnon". * October - Excavations by John Clayton in Coventina's Well at Carrawburgh on Hadrian's Wall yield at least 13,400 Roman coins. Publications * Amelia Edwards - ''A Thousand Miles up the Nile''. Births * March 19 - John Marshall, English Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India (died 1958). * May 5 - John Garstang, English archaeologist of the Near East (died 1956). Deaths * August 19 - George Smith, English Assyriologist (born 1840 Events January–March * January 3 – One of the predecessor papers of the ''Herald Sun'' of Melbourne, Australia, ''The Port Phillip Herald'', is founded. * January 10 – Uniform Penny Post is introduced in the United King ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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