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1849 in archaeology

Explorations

• 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.

Excavations

Publications

Finds

Awards

Miscellaneous

a guy by the name of Joe winterson found a dinosaur bone that was big.

Births

• December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (d. 1922)

Deaths

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1848 in archaeology
• 1850 in archaeology