1949 in archaeology

The year 1949 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Events

• November 21–23 - First Internationales Sachsensymposion held.
• University of New Mexico transfers lands to the National Park Service and expands Chaco Canyon National Monument, with the proviso that the university may continue scientific research.

Excavations

• February 15 - Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
• Excavation work recommences at the Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
• Alberto Ruz Lhuillier begins excavations of the Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque.
• Seton Lloyd begins excavations at Sakçagözü.
• Grahame Clark begins excavations at Star Carr, North Yorkshire (continues to 1951).
• Conclusion of excavations in the Vatican Necropolis.

Finds

• Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago.
• Anak Tomb No. 3 (dated 357 CE) found in North Korea.
• New excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China unearth 5 teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone.
• First new discoveries of Nimrud ivories by British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by Max Mallowan.[1]
• 12th century murals discovered in Coombes Church, West Sussex, England.

Publications

• 'C. W. Ceram' - Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte (Gods, Graves and Scholars: the story of archaeology).
• T. D. Kendrick - Late Saxon and Viking Art.

Awards

Births

• Dolores Piperno - American archaeologist[2]

Deaths

References

1. "Christie ivories to go on show at British Museum". BBC. 8 March 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-08.
2. Davis, Tinsley H. (17 July 2007). "Profile of Dolores R. Piperno". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 104 (29): 11871–11873. doi:10.1073/pnas.0704904104. PMC 1924548. PMID 17626180. Retrieved 2 June 2017.