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1801 in archaeology

The year 1801 in archaeology involved some significant events.


The year 1801 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Drawing of a mastodon skeleton by Rembrandt Peale

  • The first complete mastodon skeleton is excavated (see Peale's Barber Farm Mastodon Exhumation Site, before dinosaurs were discovered.

  • The first of the Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.

  • Joseph Barnard Davis, English craniologist (d. 1881)

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