1877 in archaeology

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"Gateway of the Sun" at Tiahuanaco, as published in Ephraim G. Squier's Peru: Incidents of Travel

The year 1877 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Artist and photographer William Henry Jackson participates in the Hayden Survey of the Western United States, producing maps of Chaco Canyon, but no photographs due to technical problems.

Excavations

• French diplomat and archaeologist Ernest de Sarzec begins excavation at Girsu in Mesopotamia (which he believes to be Lagash).
• George Smith excavates Later Stone Age tools in caves near Smithfield, Free State.

Finds

• May 8 - Hermes and the Infant Dionysus (attributed to the sculptor Praxiteles) first uncovered at Olympia by German archaeologist Ernst Curtius.

Publications

• Canon William Greenwell - British Barrows: a record of the examination of sepulchral mounds in various parts of England; together with description of figures of skulls, general remarks on prehistoric crania, and an appendix by George Rolleston.
• John Postlethwaite - Mines and Mining in the Lake District.
• Ephraim G. Squier - Peru: Incidents of Travel and Exploration in the Land of the Incas.

Births

• June 16 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist
• July 29 - Edward Thurlow Leeds, English archaeologist of the Anglo-Saxons

Deaths

• October 17 - Johann Carl Fuhlrott, discoverer of Neanderthal Man

See also

• Ancient Greece / Prehistoric man