1865 in archaeology

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The year 1865 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• The first report of a discovery of Coţofeni culture at Râpa Roșie in Romania is made by Fr. W. Schuster.

Excavations

• Excavations at Slack Roman fort in Yorkshire (England) under the direction of George Lloyd.

Publications

• John Lubbock publishes Pre-historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages, including his coinage of the term Palæolithic.^[1]
• Joseph-Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionnaire des antiquités chrétiennes.
• Edward Burnett Tylor publishes Researches into the Early History of Mankind and the Development of Civilization.

Finds

• French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt. It is made c. 2510 BC - 2460 BC.

Miscellaneous

• Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
• Palestine Exploration Fund is established.

Deaths

• May 4: Henry Christy, English ethnologist, archaeologist and sponsor (born 1810).
• May 21 - Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, Danish archaeologist (born 1788).

See also

• Ancient Egypt / Egyptology

References

1. "Palaeolithic, adj. and n.". Oxford English Dictionary online version (3rd ed.). Oxford University Press. December 2011. Archived from the original on 2012-02-26. Retrieved 2012-02-24. (subscription or UK public library membership required)