List of years in archaeology

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In science: 1826; 1827; 1828; 1829; 1830; 1831; 1832

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1829 in archaeology

Explorations

'Charles Masson' (James Lewis) explores the Indus Valley civilisation and locates the site of Harappa.^[1]

Excavations

First excavations at Olympia, Greece by an expedition led by Abel Blouet^[2]
Yorkshire Philosophical Society concludes excavation of St Mary's Abbey, York, England,^[3] prior to construction of the Yorkshire Museum on part of the site.

Finds

Engis 2, part of the skull of a young child and other bones, recognised in 1936 as the first known Neanderthal fossil, is found in the Awirs cave near Engis in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands (modern-day Belgium) by Philippe-Charles Schmerling.^[4]

Publications

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Births

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Deaths

10 May - Thomas Young, English Egyptologist (b. 1773)^[5]

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