1891 in archaeology

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… 1881 1882 1883 1884 1885 1886 1887 1888 1889 1890 1891 1892 1893 1894 1895 1896 1897 1898 1899 1900 1901 …
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The year 1891 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Brahmagiri first explored by Benjamin L. Rice.

Excavations

• Peabody Museum (Harvard) - Harvard University project at Copan begins.
• Flinders Petrie works on the temple of Aten at Tell-el-Amarna, discovering a 300-square-foot (28 m²) New Kingdom painted pavement.
• J. Theodore Bent works at Great Zimbabwe.

Finds

• May 28 - Gundestrup cauldron.

Paleontology

• October - Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or 'Java Man', at Trinil on the Solo River.
• The Saqqara Bird.

Publications

• Coins of Ancient India by Sir Alexander Cunningham.

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