1908 in archaeology
The year 1908 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Stela at Seibal, photographed by Teoberto Maler, as published in 1908.
| |||
|---|---|---|---|
Explorations
- January: Skeleton Cave (Arizona) rediscovered, containing remains of Yavapai massacred in the Battle of Salt River Canyon (1872).[1]
Excavations
- At Avebury by Harold St George Gray.[2]
- First excavations at Samaria begin by a Harvard expedition.
- Sakçagözü excavated by John Garstang.
- Ulugh Beg Observatory is discovered in Samarkand by Russian archaeologist V. L. Vyatkin, which had been partly destroyed in 1449.
Publications
- A. Hadrian Allcroft - Earthwork of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Mediæval.
- Joseph Déchelette begins publishing his Manuel d'Archéologie Préhistorique, Celtique, et Gallo-romaine.
Finds
- 3 July: Phaistos Disc.[3]
- 3 August: "La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1", a 56,000- to 47,000-year-old Neanderthal adult male skeleton, is found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in central France by Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie and L. Bardon.
- A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France by Otto Hauser.
- Venus of Willendorf found by Josef Szombath.
- The largest ever coin hoard is found, 150,000 13th century silver pennies in Brussels.
Births
- November 25: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian (died 2001)
- December 17: Willard Frank Libby, American developer of radiocarbon dating (died 1980)
Deaths
- Frank Calvert, English archaeologist (born 1828)
References
- Daniel Joseph Bangs; Donald Bangs (February 1959). "A Trip to Skeleton Cave". Arizona Highways.
- Gray, H. St. George (19 July 2011). "VI.—The Avebury Excavations, 1908—1922". Archaeologia. 84: 99–162. doi:10.1017/s0261340900013655.
- "Phaistos Disc Discovered". History Channel. 20 June 2016. Retrieved 1 February 2018.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.