1886 in archaeology

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.^[1]

Finds

• September – Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.^[2]
• 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.^[3]
• 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).^[4]

Deaths

• June 5 – Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).^[5]