1884 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1884.

Explorations

 * Rev. William Collings Lukis and Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., survey megalithic monuments in Scotland, Cumberland and Westmoreland.

Excavations

 * October - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Woodcutts Common, on his Cranborne Chase estate in Dorset.
 * Tanis, Egypt: the first excavation conducted by Flinders Petrie.
 * Excavations at the Oracle of Apollo on Ptoion are begun by the French School at Athens.

Finds

 * Winter - First burials of the Remedello culture.
 * Hittites' script identified on a monument at Boğazkale discovered by William Wright.

Institutions

 * Pitt Rivers Museum established by donation of Augustus Pitt Rivers' anthropological and archaeological collections to the University of Oxford.
 * Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology established at the University of Cambridge, opening as the Cambridge Antiquarian Library and Museum.

Publications

 * François Lenormant - La Genèse traduite d'après l'hébreu, avec distinction des éléments constitutifs du texte, suivi d‘un essai de restitution des textes dont s'est servi le dernier rédacteur (Paris).

Births

 * January 26 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (d. 1960).
 * February 1 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (d. 1950)
 * July 25 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (d. 1934)