1884 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.
Explorations
- Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.
Excavations
- October – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.
- Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.
- Excavations at the Oracle of Apollo on Ptoion are begun by the French School at Athens.
Finds
- Winter – First burials of the Remedello culture.
- Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.
Institutions
- Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.
- Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.
Publications
- François Lenormant – La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur.
Births
- January 26 – Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer.
- February 1 – Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art
- July 25 – Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist