Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1900.

Explorations

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Excavations

• March 16: Arthur Evans purchases Knossos and soon after begins excavations.
• Excavations by Friedrich Delitzsch begin at Assur.
• University of Pennsylvania excavations at Nippur conclude (began in 1888).
• Gordium excavated by Gustav and Alfred Körte.
• Kavousi excavated by Harriet Boyd.
• Villa Boscoreale, near Pompeii, excavated.
• Excavations at Hedeby in Jutland begin.

Publications

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Finds

• April 5: A large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek, now known as Linear B, is found at Knossos. ^[1]
• May: Migdale Hoard of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered near Bonar Bridge in Scotland.
• October: Greek sponge divers discover the Antikythera wreck.
• Dr. James K. Hampson documents find of the Island 35 Mastodon skeleton in the Mississippi River.
• Site of Temple of Eshmun discovered in Lebanon.

Awards

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Miscellaneous

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Births

• May 2 – A. W. Lawrence, English Classical archaeologist (d. 1991).
• May 23 – Gustav Riek, German archaeologist (d. 1976).
• August 18 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964).
• August 19 – Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001).

Deaths

• May 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1827). ^[2]
• May 18 – Félix Ravaisson-Mollien, French philosopher and archaeologist (b. 1813). ^[3]

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1899 in archaeology
• 1901 in archaeology

References