The year 1886 in
archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
*
Excavations
* October 4 -
Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the
Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.
Finds
* September -
Beothuk child burial on an island of
Newfoundland
Newfoundland and Labrador (; french: Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador; frequently abbreviated as NL) is the easternmost province of Canada, in the country's Atlantic region. The province comprises the island of Newfoundland and the continental region ...
.
* The well-preserved skeletons of a
Neanderthal man and woman with
Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at
Spy, Belgium
Spy ( wa, Spî) is a village of Wallonia and a district of the municipality of Jemeppe-sur-Sambre, located in the province of Namur, Belgium.
Here in 1886, in Betche aux Roches cavern, Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt found two nearly perfect N ...
, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt.
*
Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by
Thomas Holdich.
Events
* June 10 -
Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.
Births
* October 28 -
O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d.
1957
1957 ( MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1957th year of the Common Era (CE) and ''Anno Domini'' (AD) designations, the 957th year of the 2nd millennium, the 57th year of the 20th century, and the 8th y ...
).
Deaths
* June 5 -
Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b.
1816
This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...
).
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