1917 in archaeology
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1917.
Explorations
- Thomas Gann makes the first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai in British Honduras.
Excavations
- Max Uhle discovers 12 Chinchorro mummies at Morro I, Arica, Chile.
- Religious artefacts discovered beneath the Seven-story Stone Pagoda in Tappyeong-ri, Chungju, Korea.
Publications
- Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu.
Births
- 14 October: Geoffrey Bibby, English-born archaeologist (d. 2001)[1]
- 15 October: Ralph Solecki, American archeologist (d. 2019)[2]
- 28 October: Honor Frost, Cyprus-born underwater archaeologist (d. 2010)[3]
- 31 January: Sinclair Hood, British classical archaeologist (d. 2021)[4]
Deaths
- 15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist (b. 1849)[5]
- 27 October: Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (b. 1835)[6]
- 22 November: Teoberto Maler, German explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (b. 1842)