1860 in archaeology

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1860 in archaeology

Explorations

Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.
Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.
Excavation of Holyhead Mountain Hut Circles on Holy Island, Anglesey, off the coast of Wales.

Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools (of a type already found in England) at Aurignac.^[1]
Cornet De Groot rediscovers Muara Takus Buddhist temple complex in Indonesia.^[2]

Evans, John (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint Implements in undisturbed Beds of Gravel, Sand, and Clay". Archaeologia. London. 38 (2): 280–307. doi:10.1017/s0261340900001454. Archived from the original on 2012-02-22. Retrieved 2012-02-24.
Prestwich, Joseph (January 1860). "On the Occurrence of Flint-implements, associated with the Remains of Animals of Extinct Species in Beds of a late Geological Period, in France at Amiens and Abbeville, and in England at Hoxne". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. London. 150: 277–317. doi:10.1098/rstl.1860.0018. hdl:2027/chi.098241705.

^ Harrison, W. J. (2004). "Christy, Henry (1810–1865)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/5375. Retrieved 2011-05-05. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
^ "Candi Muara Takus (Sumatra) - Kepustakaan Candi". candi.perpusnas.go.id (in Indonesian). Retrieved 2019-01-08.