The year 1801 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Contents

• Excavations
• Events
• Births
• References

Excavations

• The first complete mastodon skeleton is excavated (see Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, before dinosaurs were discovered. ^{[1] [2]}

Events

• The first of the Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. ^[3]

Births

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

References