1925 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1925.

Excavations

• Kaminaljuyu Mayan site, by Manuel Gamino.
• Kültepe in Turkey, by Bedřich Hrozný.
• Excavations in Gibraltar by Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1926).
• October - Tin Hinan Tomb in the Sahara located and opened by Byron Khun de Prorok.
• December - Complete excavation of the Great Sphinx of Giza by Émile Baraize begins (continues to 1936).

Publications

• John Beazley - Attische Vasenmaler des rotfigurigen Stils
• V. Gordon Childe - The Dawn of European Civilization.
• AleÅ¡ Hrdlička - The Old Americans.

Finds

• July 13 - "Venus of Dolní Věstonice" at Dolní Věstonice in Moravia.
• October 28 - Howard Carter reveals the golden death mask of Tutenkhamun.
• Ennigaldi-Nanna's Museum at Ur is discovered by Leonard Woolley.
• "Venus of Savignano" near Savignano sul Panaro in Italy.
• "Galilee skull" in Mugharet el-Zuttiyeh.
• The Aurignacian settlement site at Breitenbach in Saxony-Anhalt is discovered by local schoolteacher E. Thiersch.
• Belgic pottery at Swarling, Kent.
• Makapansgat pebble in South Africa.

Births

• January 22 - John Davies Evans, English archaeologist and academic (d. 2011)
• April 24 - Leslie Alcock, English archaeologist (d. 2006)
• November 14 - James Mellaart, British archaeologist. (d. 2012)

Deaths

• February 4 - Robert Koldewey, German archaeologist (b. 1855).

References