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Encyclopedia > 1839 in archaeology

1839 in archaeology 1839 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

Stela at Copan as drawn by Catherwood
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Download high resolution version (365x630, 68 KB)Copan Stela N, South Face, engraving, as drawn by Frederick Catherwood, 1839 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ... Download high resolution version (365x630, 68 KB)Copan Stela N, South Face, engraving, as drawn by Frederick Catherwood, 1839 This image is in the public domain because its copyright has expired in the United States and those countries with a copyright term of life of the author plus 100 years. ...


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John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805–October 13, 1852) was a American explorer, writer, and diplomat. ... Frederick Catherwood (February 27, 1799 - September 20, 1854) was an English artist and architect, best remembered for his explorations of ruins of the Maya civilization. ... The Maya civilization is a historical Mesoamerican civilization, which extended throughout the northern Central American region which includes the present-day states of Guatemala, Belize, western Honduras and El Salvador, as well as the southern Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco and the entirety of the Yucatán peninsula. ... The Pre-Columbian city of Cop n is a locale in extreme western Honduras, in the Cop Department, near to the Guatemalan border. ...

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Juan Galindo (1802-1839) was a Central American explorer and army officer. ...

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HighBeam Encyclopedia - archaeology (1141 words)
ARCHAEOLOGY [archaeology] [Gr.,=study of beginnings], a branch of anthropology that seeks to document and explain continuity and change and similarities and differences among human cultures.
the progress of Greek and Roman archaeology was advanced by Johann Winckelmann and Ennio Visconti and by excavations at Herculaneum and Pompeii ; in the 19th cent., by the acquisition of the Elgin Marbles.
The study of ancient cultures in the Aegean region was stimulated by the excavations of Heinrich Schliemann at Troy, and of Arthur Evans at Crete.
A Chronology of North American Archaeology (4358 words)
Archaeology had by this time become nearly two dimensional, fixed in a temporal horizon of only 4,000 years in depth.
This brought the methodology of archaeology in line with cultural study and modern evolutionary thought as distinguished from pure stratigraphy in the geologic sense.
He said that archaeology as it was currently being conducted was not archaeology; rather, it was historical reconstruction.
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