1600s in archaeology

1600s in archaeology

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

Explorations

* 1600: December 31 - The British East India Company is founded.
* 1600: Tadoussac, France's first trading post on the mainland of New France (now Canada), is established.
* 1602: Bartholomew Gosnold explores Cape Cod and the coast of Maine.
* 1601: Portuguese explorer Manoel Godinho de Heredia explores the Americas.
* 1603: Samuel de Champlain sails to New France (Canada) on a voyage up the St Lawrence River with François Gravé.
* 1603: In the American colonies, Martin Pring, aboard the "Speedwell", explores Maine but does not encounter the native Abenaki, when sailing to Penobscot Bay and the mouths of the Saco River, Kennebunk River, and York River, and sailing up the Piscataqua River.
* 1604: Samuel de Champlain sails to Acadia in New France with the Sieur de Monts.
* 1605: Massachusetts Bay is explored, and the rivers along that coast are discovered.
* 1605: George Waymouth explores the New England coast.

Excavations

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Finds

* The Savile Map of Bath, England is drawn c.1600 (discovered in 1977 by Anne Campbell Mcinnes).

Other events

* 1603: Queen Elizabeth I of England dies, after reigning 45 years, and is succeeded by King James I.
* 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).

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