- Source: 1801 in archaeology
The year 1801 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
Excavations
The first complete mastodon skeleton is excavated, before dinosaurs were discovered.
Publications
Finds
Awards
Events
The first of the Elgin Marbles brought from Athens to London by Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin.
Births
Joseph Barnard Davis, English craniologist (d. 1881)