1848 in archaeology

Explorations

• First scientific expedition visits Tikal

  Excavations

Publications

• Ancient Monuments of the Mississippi Valley by Ephraim George Squier and Edwin Hamilton Davis
• First volume of Austen H. Layard's Nineveh and its Remains
• Final volume of Lord Kingsborough's 9 volume Antiquities of Mexico

  Finds

• By March 3 - Gibraltar 1, a female skull from Forbes' Quarry in Gibraltar, later identified as Neanderthal, is found by Capt. Edmund Flint RN
• May 3 - Benty Grange helmet from a tumulus on Benty Grange farm in the Peak District of England
• Neolithic hoard at East Ayton in England

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