1730s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1730s in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.

Finds

• 1738: Herculaneum is rediscovered, buried in volcanic ash near Pompeii.

1730: William Hamilton.

Publications

• 1732: John Horsley - Britannia Romana (posthumous).
• 1735: Prospero Alpini - Historiæ Ægypti Naturalis (posthumous).
• 1736: Francis Drake - Eboracum (Roman York)

Other events

• 1731: December 8 - Antiquarian John Freeman buries a 'time capsule' in the grounds of his house at Fawley Court in England.
• 1734: November 12 - Nicholas Mahudel reads a paper to the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres on Three Successive Ages of Stone, Bronze, and Iron, introducing the concept of the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages.^[1]

Births

• 1730: September 16 - William Hamilton, Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist (died 1803)
• 1732: Luigi Lanzi, Italian archaeologist (died 1810)
• 1735: August 8 - Jérémie Jacques Oberlin, Alsatian archaeologist (died 1806)

Deaths

• 1732: January 12 - John Horsley, British archaeologist (born c.1685)

References

1. Hamy, M. E. T. (March–April 1906). "Matériaux pour servir à l'histoire de l'archéologie préhistorique". Revue archéologique. 4e série 7: 239–259.