1849 in archaeology
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1849 in archaeology
Explorations
- Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report.
- Site of Uruk discovered by William Kennett Loftus.
Excavations
- Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill.
Publications
- Austen H. Layard's Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
- Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.
Finds
- Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters.
Awards
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Miscellaneous
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Births
- November 8 — Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (died 1917)
- December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (died 1922)
Deaths
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