1801 in archaeology
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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)