1894 CE in archaeology 1894 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

Explorations

• Thomas Gann makes first scientific exploration of Xunantunich

Thomas William Francis Gann (1867-1938) was a medical doctor by profession, but is best remembered for his work as an amateur archeologist exploring ruins of the Maya civilization. ... Xunantunich (shoo-NAHN-too-nich) is a Maya archaeological site in western Belize, about 80 miles (130 km) west of Belize City, in the Cayo District. ...

Excavations

• Peabody Museum - Harvard University project at Copan concludes
• Sir Henry Meux excavates Avebury

The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University was founded by the philanthropist George Peabody in 1866 at the behest of his nephew Othniel Charles Marsh, the early paleontologist. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The Pre-Columbian city of Cop n is a locale in extreme western Honduras, in the Cop Department, near to the Guatemalan border. ... Avebury is the site of an enormous henge and stone circles in the English county of Wiltshire, surrounding a village of the same name. ...

Publications

• In the 12th Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Cyrus Thomas detailed report of the Mound Builders demolishes the earlier theory that ancient mounds in the United States were built by a "lost race" and shows they were built by the ancestors of modern Native Americans.

Cyrus Thomas (July 27, 1825–1910) was a U.S. ethnologist and entomologist prominent in the late 19th century and noted for his studies of the natural history of the American West. ... This article is about mound-building birds. ... Assiniboin Boy, an Atsina Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory that is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times. ...

Finds

• Knossos by Arthur Evans

Knossos Knossos (35°18′ N 25°10′ E; alternative spellings Knossus, Cnossus, Gnossus, Greek Κνωσσός) is the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete, probably the ceremonial and political center of the Minoan culture. ... Sir Arthur John Evans (July 8, 1851 – July 11, 1941) was an English archaeologist. ...

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

• 5 June: Giuseppe Tucci

June 5 is the 156th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (157th in leap years), with 209 days remaining. ... Giuseppe Tucci (1894 or 1895 - 1984), born in Macerata, Italy was an italian archaeologist, anthropologist, journalist and writer. ...

Deaths

• 5 July: Austen Henry Layard

July 5 is the 186th day of the year (187th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 179 days remaining. ... The Right Honourable Sir Austen Henry Layard (5 March 1817–5 July 1894) was a British author and diplomatist, best known as the excavator of Nineveh. ...

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1893 in archaeology
• 1895 in archaeology