1891 in archaeology

Explorations

• Brahmagiri first explored by Benjamin L. Rice.

Excavations

• Peabody Museum (Harvard) - Harvard University project at Copan begins.
• Flinders Petrie works on the temple of Aten at Tell-el-Amarna, discovering a New Kingdom painted pavement.
• J. Theodore Bent works at Great Zimbabwe.

Finds

• May 28 - Gundestrup cauldron, found in Himmerland, Denmark.

Paleontology

• October - Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or 'Java Man', at Trinil on the Solo River.
• The Saqqara Bird.

Publications

• Dorset Ooser first published.