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1770s in archaeology

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The decade of the 1770s in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

  • 1773: Don Ramon de Ordoñez y Aguilar examines the ruins of Palenque and sends a report to the Captain General at Antigua Guatemala.
  • 1777: The ruins of Xochicalco described by explorer Antonio Alzate.

    • Excavations

  • Formal excavations continue at Pompeii.
  • 1776: October - Vertical shaft sunk at Silbury Hill.

    • Finds

  • 1774: Discovery of reputed Roman Baths, Strand Lane, London.

    • Publications

  • 1774: Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco identifies the Chaco Canyon area as "Chaca" on a map. The term, a Spanish translation of a Navajo word, is thought to be the origin for "Chacra Mesa" and "Chaco".
  • 1775: Memoire sur Venus, by Pierre Henri Larcher.

    • Other events

  • 1772: The British Museum acquires its first antiquities of note, Sir William Hamilton's collection of ancient Greek vases.
  • 1774: May 2 - The Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of King Edward I.

    • Births

  • 1771: March 10 - Georg Friedrich Creuzer, German Greek philologist and archaeologist (d. 1858)
  • 1774: June 10 - Carl Haller von Hallerstein, German Greek archaeologist (d. 1817)
  • 1776
  • January 4 - Bernardino Drovetti, Italian antiquarian and Egyptologist (d. 1852)
  • March 12 - Lady Hester Stanhope, English archaeologist (d. 1839)
  • 1778: November 5 - Giovanni Battista Belzoni, Italian explorer and Egyptologist (d. 1823)
  • 1779: May 29 - John Disney, English barrister, antiquarian and archaeological benefactor (d. 1857)

    • Deaths

  • 1771 Francis Drake (born 1696)

    • References

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