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1600s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Other events

  • c.1600: The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn (discovered in 1977 by Anne Campbell Mcinnes).
  • 1603: In Holland, Frederik de Houtman publishes a grammar and dictionary of Malay and Malagasy, along with a treatise describing the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
  • 1609: A Dutch VOC ship built in 1601 or 1602, and loaded with 18000 zinc ingots, is wrecked in 1609 off Gabon, West Africa (discovered in 1985, excavated by Michel L'Hour).

    • Births

  • c.1600: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (d. 1661)
  • c.1602: Athanasius Kircher, German Jewish orientalist (d. 1680)

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