1945 in archaeology
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The year 1945 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Excavations
- Mortimer Wheeler excavates at Arikamedu in Puducherry.
Finds
December - Nag Hammadi library.
Miscellaneous
- W. F. Grimes succeeds Mortimer Wheeler as director of the London Museum.
Births
- January 13 - Francis Pryor, English archaeologist
- February 19 - Barbara Adams, English egyptologist (d. 2002)[1]
- April 16 - Vladas Žulkus, Lithuanian underwater archaeologist
- James Peter Allen, American Egyptologist
- J. P. Mallory, Irish American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
Deaths
- March 31 - Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist (b. 1871)[2]
- May 5 - Edgar James Banks, American antiquarian (b. 1866)
- May 31 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (b. 1865)
References
- ↑ "Obituary: Barbara Adams". The Guardian. 13 July 2002. Retrieved 9 October 2017.
- ↑ "Harriet Boyd Hawes". Britannica.com. Retrieved 23 May 2017.
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