1903 in archaeology

The year 1903 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

• Thomas Gann makes first scholarly investigation of Lubaantun.
• Raphael Pumpelly explores at Anau in Turkestan.

Excavations

• Excavations at Assur are continued by a team from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft led initially by Robert Koldewey (continue until 1913).
• Excavations at Orchomenus (Boeotia) are begun by a team from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities led by Heinrich Bulle and Adolf Furtwängler (continue until 1905).[1]

Finds

• The remains of "Cheddar Man" are found within Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, dating to approximately 7150 BCE.[2]
• KV43, the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, and the burial chamber of KV20, the original tomb of Thutmose I, in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, are discovered by Howard Carter for Theodore M. Davis.[3]
• The first Ramesses III prisoner tiles are found by sebakh-diggers in Egypt.

Miscellaneous

• Salomon Reinach suggests that cave paintings are expressions of "sympathetic magic".
• Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, with fresco wall paintings (c.50–40 BCE) first installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.[4]

Publications

• G. Baldwin Brown - The Arts in Early England, vol. 1.
• Teoberto Maler - Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley: report of explorations for the Museum, 1898-1900, vol. 2, completing a detailed description of Yaxchilan and nearby Maya sites (Peabody Institute).

Births

• March 22 - Mary Chubb, English archaeologist and author working in Egypt and the Near East (died 2003)
• August 7 - Louis Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist (died 1972)[5]
• Kenneth Murray, English-born archaeologist working in Nigeria (died 1972)

Deaths

References

1. "The scientific work". Archaeological Museum of Thebes. Retrieved 2017-11-23.
2. "Gough's Cave excavation". Natural History Museum, London. Archived from the original on 2009-07-27. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
3. Carter, Howard; Newberry, Percy E. (1904). The Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV. Westminster: Constable.
4. "Works of Art Collection Database". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2011-06-27.
5. "Louis Leakey". Britannica.com. Retrieved 29 May 2017.