- 1600s in archaeology
The decade of the 1600s in archaeology involved some significant events.
Explorations
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1600 :December 31 - TheBritish East India Company is founded.
*1600 :Tadoussac ,France 's first trading post on the mainland ofNew France (nowCanada ), is established.
*1602 :Bartholomew Gosnold exploresCape Cod and the coast ofMaine .
*1601 : Portuguese explorerManoel Godinho de Heredia explores the Americas.
*1603 :Samuel de Champlain sails toNew France (Canada ) on a voyage up theSt Lawrence River withFrançois Gravé .
*1603 : In the American colonies,Martin Pring , aboard the "Speedwell", exploresMaine but does not encounter the nativeAbenaki , when sailing toPenobscot Bay and the mouths of theSaco River ,Kennebunk River , and York River, and sailing up thePiscataqua River .
*1604 :Samuel de Champlain sails toAcadia inNew France with the Sieur de Monts.
*1605 :Massachusetts Bay is explored, and the rivers along that coast are discovered.
*1605 :George Waymouth explores theNew England coast.Excavations
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Finds
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Savile Map of Bath , England is drawn c.1600 (discovered in 1977 byAnne Campbell Mcinnes ).Other events
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1603 : QueenElizabeth I of England dies, after reigning 45 years, and is succeeded by King James I.
*1603 : InHolland , Frederik de Houtman publishes agrammar and dictionary ofMalay andMalagasy , along with a treatise describing theconstellations of the southern hemisphere.
*1609 : A Dutch VOC ship built in1601 or1602 , and loaded with 18000zinc ingots, is wrecked in1609 offGabon ,West Africa (discovered in1985 , excavated by Michel L'Hour).Births
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