1600s in archaeology
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The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
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Excavations
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Finds
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Other events
- c.1600: The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn (discovered in 1977 by Anne Campbell Mcinnes).
- 1603: In Holland, Frederik de Houtman publishes a grammar and dictionary of Malay and Malagasy, along with a treatise describing the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
- 1609: A Dutch VOC ship built in 1601 or 1602, and loaded with 18000 zinc ingots, is wrecked in 1609 off Gabon, West Africa (discovered in 1985, excavated by Michel L'Hour).
- c.1680: First written reference to the Callanish Stones on the Isle of Lewis (Scotland).
Births
- c.1660: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (d. 1661)
- c.1602: Athanasius Kircher, German Jewish orientalist (d. 1680)