1600s in archaeology

The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events.

1590s . 1600s in archaeology . 1610s

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Events

• c.1600: The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn (discovered in 1977 by Anne Campbell Mcinnes).
• 1603: In Holland, Frederik de Houtman publishes a grammar and dictionary of Malay and Malagasy, along with a treatise describing the constellations of the southern hemisphere.
• 1609: A Dutch VOC ship built in 1601 or 1602, and loaded with 18000 zinc ingots, is wrecked in 1609 off Gabon, West Africa (discovered in 1985, excavated by Michel L'Hour).

Births

• c.1600: Famiano Nardini, Italian archaeologist (d. 1661)
• 1602: John Greaves, English mathematician, astronomer and antiquary (d. 1652)^[1]
• 1602: May 2 - Athanasius Kircher, German scholar (d. 1680)^[2]