1922 in archaeology

The year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Excavations

• September - Excavations at Coldrum Long Barrow in south east England resumed by architect E. W. Filkins.
• November 4 - Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon and Herbert's daughter, Evelyn Beauchamp, on November 26.[1]
• First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill, Avebury, England.[2]
• Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.[3]
• Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos, by Franz Cumont.[4]
• Excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens).[5]
• Excavations at Sutton Courtenay Anglo-Saxon village in England by Edward Thurlow Leeds.[6]

Explorations

• Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford.
• Mohenjo-daro rediscovered by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay of the Archaeological Survey of India.
• First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium (a gigantic hornless rhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"), Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs (found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor), Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.

Finds

• Venus of Lespugue.[7]

Publications

• Alfred Watkins - Early British Trackways.[8]

Births

• March 31 - Richard Daugherty, American archaeologist (d. 2014)[9]
• July 12 - Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B (d. 1956).[10]
• August 3 - Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist of Buddhist grottoes (d. 2018)
• November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics (d. 1999).[11]
• Kim Won-yong, "doyen of Korean archaeology" and Seoul National University professor (d. 1993).

Deaths

• November 23 - Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (born 1849).[12]

See also

• List of years in archaeology

References

1. "Howard Carter's diary and journal 1922". www.griffith.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
2. "Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure, Avebury, Wiltshire". historicengland.org.uk. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
3. "Sir Leonard Woolley - British archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
4. Christie, Neil; Augenti, Andrea (2012). Vrbes Extinctae: Archaeologies of Abandoned Classical Towns. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. p. 308. ISBN 9780754665625.
5. "Ministry of Culture and Sports". odysseus.culture.gr. Retrieved 22 March 2018.
6. Leeds, E. T. (1922–23). "A Saxon Village near Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire". Archaeologia. Society of Antiquaries of London. 73: 147–92. doi:10.1017/s0261340900010328.
7. Nicolescu, Basarab (2014). From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality. SUNY Press. p. 16. ISBN 9781438449654.
8. "Lines of Sight: Alfred Watkins, Photography and Topography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain". www.tate.org.uk. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
9. "Richard Daugherty dies at 91; archaeologist studied Makah tribe site". Los Angeles Times. 2 March 2014. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
10. "Michael Ventris - British architect and cryptographer". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
11. "Yury Valentinovich Knorozov - Russian linguist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
12. Riedel, Franka Böck und Thomas (2013). Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft: Blut & Kreislaufsystem von der Antike zur Moderne (in German). epubli. p. 18. ISBN 9783844261844.