1885 in archaeology 1885 (MDCCCLXXXV) is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Archaeology, archeology or archæology (from the Greek words αρχαίος = ancient and λόγος = word/speech/discourse) 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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Publications

• Désiré Charnay's account of his explorations in Mesoamerica, Les Anciennes Villes du Nouveau Monde, Paris

Claude-Joseph Désiré Charnay (2 May 1828 - 24 October 1915) was a French traveller and archaeologist notable both for his explorations of Mexico and Central America, and for the pioneering use of photography to document his discoveries. ... Mesoamerica is the region extending from central Mexico south to the northwestern border of Costa Rica that gave rise to a group of stratified, culturally related agrarian civilizations spanning an approximately 3,000-year period before the European discovery of the New World by Columbus. ...

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See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1884 in archaeology
• 1886 in archaeology