1899 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1899.
Events
- 31 December: A large standing stone at Stonehenge falls over.
Explorations
- Tell Halaf, Syria, discovered by Max von Oppenheim.
Excavations
- Excavations of Babylon by Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft directed by Robert Koldewey begin.
- Excavation of Anglo-Saxon town wall in Clarendon Quadrangle of Bodleian Library, Broad Street, Oxford, England.[1]
Finds
- Chinese oracle bones from the site of Yinxu are identified by Wang Yirong, director of the Imperial College of China, as carrying Shang dynasty writing.
- Roman Empire-related silver plate is found near Qalagah, Azerbaijan.
- Södermanland runic inscription 140.
- Sand quarriers find over 800 fragmentary Neanderthal remains representing at least 12 and likely as many as 70 individuals on the hill of HuÅ¡njakovo in Krapina in the Austro-Hungarian Empire (modern-day Croatia), identified by Dragutin GorjanoviÄ-Kramberger.
Publications
Births
- 30 December: Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer; co-discoverer of Viking artifacts at L'Anse aux Meadows (d. 2001).
- William Duncan Strong, American archaeologist and anthropologist (d. 1962).[3]