Английская Википедия:1953 in archaeology
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Шаблон:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1953.
Excavations
Finds
- Banpo, a group of 6,500-year-old Neolithic settlements on the eastern outskirts of the Chinese city of Xi'an.[1]
- "Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert (with correspondence from the Bar Kokhba revolt of ca. 132–136 CE) identified.
- al-Khader Phoenician arrowheads.[2]
- Jerusalem ossuaries found stored in a cave on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem by Franciscans.
- The Narsaq stick is found in Greenland, the first example of Viking Age runic inscriptions found in the country.
- 1st century Roman leather bikini briefs found in the City of London.[3]
Events
- November 21: Piltdown Man is shown to be a hoax (first presented by Charles Dawson in 1912).[4]
Publications
- O. G. S. Crawford - Archaeology in the Field (Dent).
- B. H. St.J. O'Neil - Castles: an introduction to the castles of England and Wales (HMSO).
- Gordon R. Willey - Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Virú Valley, Perú (Bureau of American Ethnology).
Births
- Mensun Bound, Falkland Islands-born maritime archaeologist
- Arlen F. Chase, American archaeologist whose work focuses on Mesoamerica[5]
Deaths
- March 24: Félix-Marie Abel, French biblical archaeologist (b. 1878)
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