Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1894
Events January–March
* January 4 – A military alliance is established between the French Third Republic and the Russian Empire.
* January 7 – William Kennedy Dickson receives a patent for motion picture film in the United S ...
.
Explorations
*
Thomas Gann
Thomas William Francis Gann (13 May 1867 – 24 February 1938) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archaeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization.
Personal history
Thomas Gann was bo ...
makes first scientific exploration of
Xunantunich
Xunantunich () is an Ancient Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 70 miles (110 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. Xunantunich is located atop a ridge above the Mopan River, well within sight of the Guatemala border ...
.
*
Henri Lammens visits the
Roman temple of Bziza
The Roman temple of Bziza is a well-preserved first century AD building dedicated to Azizos, a personification of the Phosphorus (morning star), morning star in the Ancient Canaanite religion, Canaanite mythology. This Roman temple lends the mo ...
.
Excavations
* March 29–May 12 -
Augustus Pitt Rivers
Lieutenant General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14 April 18274 May 1900) was an English officer in the British Army, ethnologist, and archaeologist. He was noted for innovations in archaeological methodology, and in the museum display o ...
excavates
Wor Barrow
Wor Barrow is a Neolithic long barrow on Cranborne Chase, about east of Sixpenny Handley in Dorset, England. It is a scheduled monument.
Its excavation by Augustus Pitt Rivers in 1893–1894 has been described as "an important event in the study ...
mound on
Cranborne Chase
Cranborne Chase () is an area of central southern England, straddling the counties Dorset, Hampshire and Wiltshire. It is part of the Cranborne Chase and West Wiltshire Downs Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB).
The area is dominated by, ...
in England.
*
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology -
Harvard University project at
Copán in Honduras concludes.
* On
Dartmoor in England,
Grimspound late Bronze Age settlement is excavated and partially reconstructed and Langstone Moor
stone circle
A stone circle is a ring of standing stones. Most are found in Northwestern Europe – especially in Britain, Ireland, and Brittany – and typically date from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, with most being built from 3000 BC. The be ...
is largely re-erected.
* Sir Henry Meux excavates
Avebury in
Wiltshire, England.
*
Flinders Petrie begins excavation of the
Naqada culture in Egypt.
* 2-year investigation of the
Pyramid of Senusret I at
Lisht in Egypt by Swiss archaeologists Jules-Émile Gautier and Gustave Jéquier begins.
Finds
*
Knossos is found by
Arthur Evans.
*
Roman silver plate, dated to 2nd–4th century, unearthed near
Yenikend,
Azerbaijan.
*
Roman milestone
Roman roads ( la, viae Romanae ; singular: ; meaning "Roman way") were physical infrastructure vital to the maintenance and development of the Roman state, and were built from about 300 BC through the expansion and consolidation of the Roman Re ...
s found in bed of
River Petteril near
Carlisle
Carlisle ( , ; from xcb, Caer Luel) is a city that lies within the Northern England, Northern English county of Cumbria, south of the Anglo-Scottish border, Scottish border at the confluence of the rivers River Eden, Cumbria, Eden, River C ...
(''
Luguvalium'') on the northern border of England.
Publications
* In the ''12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology'',
Cyrus Thomas' detailed report on the
Mound Builders demolishes the earlier theory that ancient mounds in the
United States were built by a "lost race", and shows they were built by the ancestors of modern
Native Americans.
Events
*
E. A. Wallis Budge
Sir Ernest Alfred Thompson Wallis Budge (27 July 185723 November 1934) was an English Egyptologist, Orientalist, and philologist who worked for the British Museum and published numerous works on the ancient Near East. He made numerous trips ...
appointed Keeper of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the
British Museum.
*
Ernst Förstemann deciphers the
Maya numbering systems.
* A marble sculpture from
Prusias ad Hypium in Turkey is installed in the new
Imperial Museum, Istanbul.
Births
* February 19 -
Emil Forrer,
Swiss
Swiss may refer to:
* the adjectival form of Switzerland
* Swiss people
Places
* Swiss, Missouri
* Swiss, North Carolina
*Swiss, West Virginia
* Swiss, Wisconsin
Other uses
*Swiss-system tournament, in various games and sports
*Swiss Internation ...
Assyriologist
Assyriology (from Greek , ''Assyriā''; and , '' -logia'') is the archaeological, anthropological, and linguistic study of Assyria and the rest of ancient Mesopotamia (a region that encompassed what is now modern Iraq, northeastern Syria, southea ...
and
Hittitologist (d.
1986
The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations.
Events January
* January 1
** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles.
**Spain and Portugal ente ...
)
* June 5 -
Giuseppe Tucci
Giuseppe Tucci (; 5 June 1894 – 5 April 1984) was an Italian orientalist, Indologist and scholar of East Asian studies, specializing in Tibetan culture and the history of Buddhism. During its zenith, Tucci was a supporter of Italian fascism ...
,
Italian Orientalist (d.
1984
Events
January
* January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888.
* January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeast A ...
)
* November 3 -
Winifred Lamb
Winifred Lamb (3 November 1894 – 16 September 1963) was a British archaeologist, art historian, and museum curator who specialised in Greek, Roman, and Anatolian cultures and artefacts. The bulk of her career was spent as the honorary keeper ...
,
English archaeologist (d.
1963
Events January
* January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cov ...
)
* December 15 -
Raissa Calza
Raissa Samojlovna Calza (née Gourevitch; 15 December 189424 January 1979) was a Ukrainian dancer who became a prominent classical archaeologist of Roman portraiture. When she was young, she fled to Italy and France following the Russian revoluti ...
, née Gourevitch, Ukrainian-born ballet dancer, later archaeologist of
Ancient Rome (d.
1979
Events
January
* January 1
** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...
)
* December 28 -
Oscar Broneer,
Swedish American archaeologist of
Ancient Greece (d.
1992
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)
Deaths
* July 5 -
Austen Henry Layard
Sir Austen Henry Layard (; 5 March 18175 July 1894) was an English Assyriologist, traveller, cuneiformist, art historian, draughtsman, collector, politician and diplomat. He was born to a mostly English family in Paris and largely raised in It ...
, French-born British archaeologist of Iran (b.
1817
Events
January–March
* January 1 – Sailing through the Sandwich Islands, Otto von Kotzebue discovers New Year Island.
* January 19 – An army of 5,423 soldiers, led by General José de San Martín, starts crossing the ...
)
* September 20 -
Giovanni Battista de Rossi, Italian archaeologist (b.
1822
Events
January–March
* January 1 – The Greek Constitution of 1822 is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
*January 3 - The famous French explorer, Aimé Bonpland, is made prisoner in Paraguay accused of being a spy. ...
)
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