1801 in archaeology

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The year 1801 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

Drawing of a mastodon skeleton by Rembrandt Peale

• The first complete mastodon skeleton is excavated, before dinosaurs were discovered.

Events

• The first of the Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.

Births

• Joseph Barnard Davis, English craniologist (d. 1881)