1602 in Archaeology Resource | Learn About, Share and Discuss 1602 in Archaeology At Popflock.com

Table of years in archaeology
	...; 1590; 1591; 1592; 1593; 1594; 1595; 1596; 1597; 1598; 1599; 1600; 1601; 1602; 1603; 1604; 1605; 1606; 1607; 1608; 1609; 1610; ...;
Related time period or subjects
	...; 1597; 1598; 1599; 1600; 1601; 1602; 1603; ...; ...; 1570s; 1580s; 1590s; 1600s; 1610s; 1620s; 1630s; ...; ...; 15th century; 16th century; 17th century; ...;
	Art Archaeology Architecture Literature Music Science more ; In Template:Year nav topic: extra parameters: science

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

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).

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]

^ "John Greaves - English mathematician, astronomer, and antiquary". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 2017.
^ "Athanasius Kircher". Yale University Library. Retrieved 2017.

Preceded by 1590s in archaeology	Archaeology timeline 1600s	Succeeded by 1610s in archaeology