1886 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1886.

Excavations

 * October 4 - Augustus Pitt Rivers begins excavation of the Romano-British settlement site on Rotherley Down.

Finds

 * September - Beothuk child burial on an island of Newfoundland.
 * The well-preserved skeletons of a Neanderthal man and woman with Mousterian stone implements are found in the Betche aux Roches cavern at Spy, Belgium, by Maximin Lohest and Marcel de Puydt.
 * Minaret of Jam in Afghanistan recorded by Thomas Holdich.
 * Armed Aphrodite statue in Epidaurus, Greece.

Events

 * June 10 - Te Wairoa is buried by a volcanic eruption.

Births

 * October 28 - O. G. S. Crawford, British archaeologist (d. 1957).

Deaths

 * June 5 - Llewellynn Jewitt, British archaeologist, illustrator and natural scientist (b. 1816).