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1955 in archaeology
The
year 1955 in
archaeology
involved some significant events.
Explorations
Thor Heyerdahl
organizes the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to
Easter Island
(continues to 1956).
Start of extensive discoveries at the Anglo-Saxon cemetery on
Loveden
Hill in
Lincolnshire
, England.
Excavations
September -
Gustav Riek
begins systematic excavations at
Brillenhöhle
(continues to 1963).
A. C. O'Dell begins excavations on
St Ninian's Isle
(continues to 1958).
Alexander Sahinian
begins excavations at
Etchmiadzin Cathedral
in
Armenia
(continues to 1956).
A. Ledyard Smith
makes the first archaeological investigation of the
Mayan
site of
Chutixtiox
in
Guatemala
.
Archaeological Survey of India
begins excavations at
Nagda
chalcolithic
site (continues to 1957).
A
Hebrew University
team led by
Yigal Yadin
begins excavations at
Tel Hazor
(continues to 1958).
Excavation of
Qujialing culture
type site
in China begins (continues to 1957).
Publications
Cyril Fox
-
Offa's Dyke: a Field Survey of the Western Frontier Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD
.
Ivan D. Margary
-
Roman Roads in Britain
, vol. 1.
I. A. Richmond
-
Roman Britain
(
Penguin Books
).
Finds
May 19 -
Greenock Coin Hoard
in Scotland.
Pesse canoe
, the oldest known boat, in the Netherlands.
First remains of
Paranthropus boisei
â teeth of Olduvai
Hominin
(OH) 3 â unearthed in
Olduvai Gorge
, Tanzania.
Miscellaneous
October - The term "
Industrial archaeology
" is popularised.
Births
January 1 -
Mary Beard
,
English
Classicist
.
April 20 -
Svante Pääbo
,
Swedish
paleogeneticist
.
September 30 -
Martin Millett
, English
Classical archaeologist
.
Deaths
January 1 -
Arthur C. Parker
, part-
Seneca
American
archaeologist
and
ethnographer
of
Native Americans in the United States
(b.
1881
).
March 31 -
Thomas Dunbabin
,
Australia
n-born Classical archaeologist and
Greek Resistance
leader (b.
1911
).
August 17 -
Edward Thurlow Leeds
, English archaeologist of the
Anglo-Saxons
(b.
1877
).
October 29 -
Alexander Keiller
, British archaeologist and benefactor (b.
1889
).
December 15 -
V. E. Nash-Williams
,
Welsh
archaeologist (b.
1897
).
December 25 -
Thomas J. Preston, Jr.
, American archaeologist (b.
1862
).
References