Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1846.
Explorations Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt. Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.
Excavations The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon", an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).
Finds The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.
Events August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis. The French School at Athens is founded.
Publications Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes first publishes his discoveries over the previous two decades of a worked flint implement in the context of elephant and rhinoceros remains in the gravels of the Somme valley John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published
Births February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)
Deaths
See also List of years in archaeology 1845 in archaeology 1847 in archaeology
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