1846 in archaeology

Explorations

• Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt.
• Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.

Excavations

• The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon", an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).

Finds

• The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.

Events

• August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C.
• 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

• 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

• February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)

Deaths

References

References

1. (1846). "Antiquities Found at Woodperry, Oxon". Archaeological Journal.
2. "Our History - Smithsonian Institution".