1849 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1849.

Explorations

 * U.S. Army Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report.
 * U.S. Navy Capt. William F. Lynch identifies Tell el Kadi as the site of the ancient city of Dan.
 * Site of Uruk discovered by William Loftus.

Excavations

 * Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill.

Publications

 * Austen H. Layard's Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh.
 * Karl Richard Lepsius' Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien.

Finds

 * Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters.

Births

 * November 8 &mdash; Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (d. 1917)
 * December 5 &mdash; Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (d. 1922)