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Encyclopedia > 1833 in archaeology

1832 in archaeology Year 1832 (MDCCCXXXII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian Calendar (or a leap year starting on Friday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ... Archaeology, archeology, or archæology (from Greek: αρχαίος, archae, ancient; and λόγος, logos, knowledge) is the study of human cultures through the recovery, documentation and analysis of material remains and environmental data, including architecture, artifacts, biofacts, human remains, and landscapes. ...

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Juan Galindo (1802 – 1839) was a Central American explorer and army officer. ... The Maya civilization is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems. ... One of the pyramids on the upper terrace of Yaxchilan. ...

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Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies (202 words)
The new Department of Archaeology and Classical Studies was created through a merger of two departments, the Department of Archaeology and the Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History.
Archaeology, previously “Comparative Archaeology”, is the oldest discipline, as Oscar Montelius was already lecturing in this field in 1887–1893 at Stockholm University College (later to become Stockholm University) and it was established as a discipline in its own right in 1917.
Classical Archaeology and Ancient History was established in 1948, through grants collected to commemorate the birth of the Swedish author Viktor Rydberg.
BBC - History - William Wilberforce (1759 - 1833) (406 words)
In 1807, the slave trade was finally abolished, but this did not free those who were already slaves.
It was not until 1833 that an act was passed giving freedom to all slaves in the British empire.
Wilberforce retired from politics in 1825 and died on 29 July 1833, shortly after the act to free slaves in the British empire passed through the House of Commons.
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