Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.
Explorations
Excavations October 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.
Finds September – Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland. The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt. Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich. Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece.
Events June 10 – Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.
Births October 28 – O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957).
Deaths January 9 – James Fergusson, Scottish-born antiquarian, architect and merchant (b. 1808). June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).
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