Julia Arnold Archaeology Timeline

Charles Darwin and Alfred Wallace Developed Theory of Natural Selection 1859

Thomas Jefferson Excavated a Mound 1784

Christian Jorgensen Thomsen Divided Artifacts into the Stone, Bronze, and Iron Ages 1819

C. J. C. Reuvens was Appointed the First University Chair in Archaeology 1818

Winkleman Completed the First Systematic Study of Greek and Roman Art and Architecture (Late 18th Century)

Napoleon Explores Egypt, Finds Rosetta Stone That Translates Egyptian Hieroglyphs (Early 19th Century)

Cunnington Started Use of Mason Trowels in Archaeology (Late 18th to Early 19th Century)

Pitt-Rivers Began to Collect All Artifacts During Excavation (Mid 19th Century)

Flinders-Petrie Demonstrated Stratigraphic Analysis and Comparative Artifact Analysis (Late 19th Century)

Heinrich Schliemann Wrote About Troy and Mycenae Being Layered Cities (Late 19th Century)

Arthur Evans Cataloged and Reconstructed Knossos (Late 19th Century)

Mortimer Wheeler Began Using a Grid System and Stratigraphic Control (Early 20th Century)

Sir Leonard Woolley Excavated King Tut's Tomb and Used Relative Chronology (Early 20th Century)

V. Gordon Childe Defined Archaeological Culture Into Revolutions (1920s)

William Stukeley Worked at Stonehenge 1740-1743