Английская Википедия:1943 in archaeology
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Шаблон:Year nav topic4 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 Tajín 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.[1]
- First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
- Cache of late-medieval wax votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.[2]
- "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.[3]
Miscellaneous
- The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.[4]
- November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.[5]
Births
- July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)[6]
- July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)[7]
- December 17 - Heidemarie Koch, German Iranologist (d. 2022)[8]
Deaths
- April 7 - Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (b. 1864)
- September 5 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist (b. 1869)
- October 26 - Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British Central Asian archaeologist (b. 1862)
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