1834 in archaeology

The year 1834 in archaeology

Excavations

 * Excavations made at Meroë by Giuseppe Ferlini
 * Recovery of guns and other material from the wreck of HMS Royal George (1756) in the Solent by Charles Anthony Deane and his brother John begins

Explorations

 * Juan Galindo explores the Maya ruins of Copan
 * French scholar Charles Texier finds the first Hittite site but does not identify it as such

Miscellaneous

 * John Clayton begins to safeguard Hadrian's Wall

Births

 * April 30 - John Lubbock, English prehistorian (d. 1913)