Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.

Contents

• Explorations
• Excavations
• Finds
• Events
• Births
• Deaths
• References

Explorations

Excavations

• October 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down. ^[1]

Finds

• September – Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland. ^[2]
• The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt. ^[3]
• Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich.
• Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece.

Events

• June 10 – Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.

Births

• October 28 – O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957). ^[4]

Deaths

• January 9 – James Fergusson, Scottish-born antiquarian, architect and merchant (b. 1808).
• June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816). ^[5]

References