1882 in archaeology 1882 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...
The Egypt Exploration Society (abbreviated EES) is the foremost learned society in the United Kingdom promoting the field of Egyptology. ... Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (14th April, 1827– 4 May 1900) was an English army officer, ethnologist, and archaeologist. ...
1882 - John Wesley Powell, director of the Smithsonian Bureau of Ethnology, hired Cyrus Thomas, a minister turned entomologist and archaeologist, to study the moundbuilders at the direction of and with funding from the United States congress.
From 1882 to 1898 he produced a series of works on aboriginal ceramics of the eastern United States, his systematic typological classifications became a model for later research.
He said that archaeology as it was currently being conducted was not archaeology; rather, it was historical reconstruction.
Christian archaeology is that branch of the science of archaeology the object of which is the study of ancient Christian monuments.
The principal aim of Christian archaeology, as indicated, is to ascertain all that is possible relative to the manners and customs of the early Christians from the monuments of Christian antiquity.
As a consequence of this difficulty, differences of opinion exist among archaeologists as to the chronological limits to be assigned to Christian archaeology.
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