1943 in archaeology

The year 1943 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

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

• First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.

Awards

Miscellaneous

• The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.[1]
• November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.[2]

Births

• July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)[3]
• July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)[4]

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)

References

1. "National Trust, Avebury Manor". Art UK. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
2. "Berlin's Pergamon Museum exhibits Tell Halaf statues". BBC News. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
3. "Peter Woodman—an Obituary". Archaeology Ireland. Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
4. Jones, Martin (23 July 2018). "Gordon Hillman obituary". the Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2018.