1846 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1838.

Explorations

 * Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt.
 * Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound in Ohio.

Excavations

 * The Rev. John Wilson publishes "Antiquities found at Woodperry, Oxon", an early account of excavations at a medieval village site (in Oxfordshire, England).

Finds

 * The Stele of Arniadas is found at the necropolis of the Corfu Palaiopolis.

Events

 * August 10 - The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C.
 * The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams (Ab Ithel) and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis.
 * The French School at Athens is founded.

Publications

 * Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes first publishes his discoveries over the previous two decades of a worked flint implement in the context of elephant and rhinoceros remains in the gravels of the Somme valley
 * John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum
 * Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published

Births

 * February 19 - Charles Simon Clermont-Ganneau, French Orientalist (d. 1923)