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1943 in archaeology
Below are notable events in
archaeology
that occurred in
1943
.
Excavations
Excavations at
Olmec
site of
La Venta
by
Matthew Stirling
end.
Start of excavations at
El TajÃÂn
by José Garcia Payon.
Start of excavations at
Hassuna
by a team from the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities led by
Seton Lloyd
(continue to 1945).
Publications
Christopher
and
Jacquetta Hawkes
-
Prehistoric Britain
.
Finds
May 20 -
Luttra Woman
, a skeletonised early
Neolithic
bog body
, is found in Sweden.
First finds of
Gaudo culture
in
Campania
.
Cache of late-medieval wax
votive image
s at
Exeter Cathedral
in England.
"Greta", a skull found in the midlands of England, is believed to be the oldest in Britain, dated to 14,000 years BP, until redated to the late 11th century CE in 2021.
Miscellaneous
The
National Trust
purchases
Avebury
from
Alexander Keiller
.
November -
Max von Oppenheim
's private archaeological museum in
Berlin
is destroyed by bombing.
Births
July 2 -
Peter Woodman
, Irish archaeologist (d.
2017
)
July 20 -
Gordon Hillman
, British archaeobotanist (d.
2018
)
December 17 -
Heidemarie Koch
, German Iranologist (d.
2022
)
Deaths
April 7 -
Auguste Audollent
, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (b.
1864
)
September 5 -
Aleà ¡ HrdliÃÂka
, Czech-American anthropologist (b.
1869
)
October 26 -
Aurel Stein
, Hungarian-British Central Asian archaeologist (b.
1862
)
References