title: 1891 in archaeology
text: # 1891 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1891.
  
  ## Explorations
  
  * Brahmagiri first explored by Benjamin L. Rice.
  
  ## Excavations
  
  * Peabody Museum (Harvard) - Harvard University project at Copan begins.
  * Flinders Petrie works on the temple of Aten at Tell-el-Amarna, discovering a 300-square-foot (28 $m^2)$ New Kingdom painted pavement.
  * J. Theodore Bent works at Great Zimbabwe.
  
  ## Finds
  
  * May 28 - Gundestrup cauldron, found in Himmerland, Denmark.
  
  ## Paleontology
  
  * October - Eugène Dubois finds the first fragmentary bones of Pithecanthropus erectus (later redesignated Homo erectus), or 'Java Man', at Trinil on the Solo River.
  * The Saqqara Bird.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Coins of Ancient India by Sir Alexander Cunningham.
  * Dorset Ooser first published.
  