1884 in archaeology
# 1884 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.

## Explorations

* Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.

## Excavations

* October - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.
* Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.
* Excavations at the Oracle of Apollo on Ptoion are begun by the French School at Athens.

## Finds

* Winter - First burials of the Remedello culture.
* Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.

## Institutions

* Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.
* Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.

## Publications

* François Lenormant - La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris).

## Births

* January 26 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).
* February 1 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)
* July 25 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)
