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The year 1939 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
- University of Pennsylvania project at Piedras Negras, Guatemala ends (started 1931).
- Palace of Nestor in Pylos by Carl Blegen (resumed 1952-69).
- Tomb of Psusennes at Tanis by Pierre Montet (started 1928).
- Deserted medieval village of Seacourt near Oxford by Rupert Bruce-Mitford (June–July 15).[1]
- Medieval settlement at Bere, North Tawton, England, by Martyn Jope.[2]
Publications
- Grahame Clark: Archaeology and Society.
Finds
- May: Sutton Hoo ship burial unearthed by Basil Brown and Edith Pretty in Suffolk, England. On July 28 the Sutton Hoo helmet is excavated.
- August 25: The Lion-man statue is discovered in the Hohlenstein-Stadel, a cave in southern Germany.[3]
- Matthew Stirling discovers the bottom half of Stela C at Tres Zapotes.
Miscellaneous
- May 6: Dorothy Garrod is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge, the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair.
Births
- July 12: Peter Addyman, English archaeologist
- November 6: Peter J. Reynolds, English experimental archaeologist (d. 2001)[4]
- December 10: Barry Cunliffe, English archaeologist
Deaths
- March 2: Howard Carter, English Egyptologist (b. 1874)[5]
References
- ↑ Bruce-Mitford, R. L. S. (1940). "The Excavations at Seacourt, Berks., 1939: an interim report" (PDF). Oxoniensia. Oxford Architectural and Historical Society. V: 31–42.
- ↑ Jope, E. M.; Threlfall, R. I. (1958). "Excavation of a medieval settlement at Bere, North Tawton, Devon". Medieval Archaeology. 2: 112–140.
- ↑ "The Lion Man: an Ice Age masterpiece". The British Museum Blog. 10 October 2017. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ↑ Aston, Mick (5 October 2001). "Peter Reynolds". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2017.
- ↑ "Howard Carter - British archaeologist". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 31 May 2017.
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