1934 in archaeology

The year 1934 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

• Maya site of Becan rediscovered by archaeologists Karl Ruppert and John Denison.

Excavations

• Poznań University project at Biskupin begins, led by Józef Kostrzewski and Zdzisław Rajewski.
• Snaketown, Arizona, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin.
• Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller (continues to 1935).
• Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler (continues to 1937).
• Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt (continues to 1939).
• Qafzeh cave excavations at Mount Precipice begin, led by René Neuville, uncovering remains of Hominidae dated to ca. 95,000 years BP.
• The site of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, accidentally discovered this year, is investigated by Giuseppe Moretti.
• Viking Age ruins at Igaliku in Greenland, by Aage Roussell, Eigil Knuth and Poul Nørlund.

Finds

• 2 January: Warka Vase found at Uruk.
• The Statue of Ebih-Il is unearthed in Mari, Syria, by a French team.

Publications

Events

• Russian paleophytologist V. A. Petrov sees a Latin stone inscription near Füzuli, Azerbaijan, mentioning Legio XII Fulminata; its exact location is unknown.[1]

Births

• January 1 - Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist (d. 2015)[2]
• May 13 - Ehud Netzer, Professor of archeology at Hebrew University known for his excavations related to Herod the Great (d. 2010)[3]
• September 2 - Donald B. Redford, Canadian Egyptologist
• Giovanni Colonna, Italian archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization

Deaths

• March 14 - Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist (b. 1862)
• March 15 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist (b. 1884)[4]
• November 23 - E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist. (b. 1857)

References

1. Тревер, Камилла (1959). Очерки по истории о культуре Кавказской Албании (in Russian). Издательство Академии Наук СССР. p. 330.
2. "Khaled al-Asaad, curator - obituary". telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
3. Dove, Aytan (7 December 2010). "Ehud Netzer obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 16 May 2017.
4. "Davidson Black - Canadian anthropologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 May 2017.