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The discovery of human antiquity was a major achievement of science in the middle of the 19th century, and the foundation of scientific paleoanthropology.The antiquity of man, human antiquity, or in simpler language the age of the human race, are names given to the series of scientific debates it involved, which with modifications continue in the 21st century.
In the third and fourth decade of the 19th century, archaeologists like Jacques Boucher de Perthes and Christian Jürgensen Thomsen began to put the artifacts they had found in chronological order. Another important development was the idea of deep time. Before this, people had the notion that the earth was quite young.
Johann Ludwig Heinrich Julius Schliemann (German: [ˈʃliːman]; 6 January 1822 – 26 December 1890) was a German businessman and an influential amateur archaeologist.He was an advocate of the historicity of places mentioned in the works of Homer and an archaeological excavator of Hisarlik, now presumed to be the site of Troy, along with the Mycenaean sites Mycenae and Tiryns.
How and when people first came to the Americas is a question archaeologists have long tried to answer. One of the most significant initial discoveries on that front was found in 1929 at a site ...
A large medieval house was built 600 years ago in Barcelona, Spain. By the 19th century, it was a chocolate factory. Now, archaeologists are exploring the remains of the ancient building ...
New research shows that Homo sapiens traveled from Africa to East Asia and toward Australia up to 86,000 years ago.
19th; 20th; 21st; 22nd; 23rd; 24th; Subcategories. ... Pages in category "19th-century archaeological discoveries" The following 39 pages are in this category, out of ...
When the grave was opened and examined in the 19th century, archaeologists found the skeletons of several hundred people inside. The dolmen sits 70 metres (230 ft) from the Dolmen de Viera [ 3 ] and about 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) from another subterranean structure known as Tholos de El Romeral .