1881 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1881.

Explorations

Timgad, Algeria, is excavated.
The excavations at Olympia, Greece which began in 1875 and were led by Ernst Curtius end.[1]
Mount Nemrut, Turkey, is excavated by German engineer Karl Sester.
Great Pyramid of Cholula in Mexico is investigated by Swiss-born American archaeologist Adolph Bandelier.
Pyramid of Unas in Egypt is investigated by French archaeologist Gaston Maspero.

March - Augustus Pitt Rivers finds palaeolithic flints in concreted gravels of the Nile terraces near Thebes.[2]
"Official" discovery of collective tomb DB320 at Deir el-Bahari in Egypt.
Capt. H. L. Wells, RE, finds Qadamgah in Fars Province, Persia (Iran).
The birch bark Bakhshali manuscript, incorporating perhaps the earliest known use of mathematical zero, is unearthed near Bakhshali in British India.

John Evans - The Ancient Bronze Implements, Weapons and Ornaments of Great Britain and Ireland.
H. A. Fletcher - "The archaeology of the west Cumberland iron trade". Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Archaeological Society 5:5–21.
Possible earliest use of the term "Industrial archaeology" in the English language.[3]

January 24 - Frances Stackhouse Acton, English botanist, archaeologist, artist and writer (b. 1794)[6]
May 19 - Joseph Barnard Davis, English craniologist (b. 1801)
June 21 - Ferdinand Keller, Swiss archaeologist (b. 1800)

"Olympia". britannica.com. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
Thompson, M. W. (1977). General Pitt-Rivers: evolution and archaeology in the nineteenth century. Bradford-on-Avon: Moonraker Press. p. 96. ISBN 0-239-00162-1.
Forest and Stream (New York) 1881-05-26 16:326; The Builder (London) 1881-08-06 41:164.
Briquelet, Kate (15 June 2014). "How Cleopatra's Needle got to Central Park". New York Post. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
"Hetty Goldman - Jewish Women's Archive". jwa.org. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
"Frances Stackhouse". discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk. Retrieved 26 May 2017.

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