Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1838.
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Explorations
edit- Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt.
- Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.
Excavations
edit- The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon",[1] an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).
Finds
edit- The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.
Events
edit- August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C.[2]
- The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.
- The French School at Athens is founded.
Publications
edit- Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes first publishes his discoveries over the previous two decades of a worked flint implement in the context of elephant and rhinoceros remains in the gravels of the Somme valley
- John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum
- Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published
Births
edit- February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)
Deaths
editSee also
editReferences
edit- ^ Archaeological Journal 3 (1846): 117-28.
- ^ "Our History - Smithsonian Institution". www.si.edu. Retrieved 17 May 2017.