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c. 1780First scientific archaeological excavations attributed to US President Thomas Jefferson.
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1819C. J. Thomsen of the Danish National Museum first uses the Three-Age System of Stone Age, Bronze Age and Iron Age to organise its collection.
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1822Champollion announces decipherment of hieroglyphic writing.
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1828First excavations begun at Clava Cairns.
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1828 - c. 1990Ongoing excavations at Clava Cairns.
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c. 1850 - 1913Excavations are ongoing at the Skara Brae site.
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c. 1860Frank Calvert, then Heinrich Schliemann beginning in 1871 CE, excavate at the site of ancient Troy.
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1876Heinrich Schliemann begins excavating at Mycenae.
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1900 - 1905Sir Arthur Evans excavates at Crete, discovering the palace at Knossos and naming the civilization "Minoan".
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1902 - 1914The Ishtar Gate excavation is underway and lead by Robert Koldewey.
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1913Skara Brae site is plundered by unknown parties.
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1920English archaeologist Sir Leonard Woolley excavates at Ur (in modern-day Iraq).
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1922English archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
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1927Professional excavation and preservation efforts begin at Skara Brae under V. G. Childe and J.W. Paterson.
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1930The reconstruction of the Ishtar Gate is completed at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin, Germany.
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c. 1960Beginnings of processual archaeology, a scientific approach to questions and designing of models to suggest answers and test theories, in the US.
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c. 1970The Sweet Track found during peat excavations, Somerset, Britain.
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Aug 1984Lindow Man discovered at Lindow Moss, a peat bog in Cheshire, England.