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Overview of the events of 1917 in archaeology
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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
)
References
^
"Term details"
.
British Museum
. Retrieved
30 May
2017
.
^
Roberts, Sam (2019-04-11).
"Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101"
.
The New York Times
.
^
Carswell, John (26 October 2010).
"Honor Frost obituary"
.
The Guardian
. Retrieved
16 May
2017
.
^
Ανδρικακης, Αλεκος (2021-01-19).
"Sinclair Hood"
.
Candia Doc
(in Greek).
^
"Maxime Collignon - Dictionary of Art Historians"
.
arthistorians.info
. Retrieved
18 May
2017
.
^
Hoare, Peter G.; McCullough, John L. (2019). "Worthington George Smith (1835–1917)".
London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions
.
70
: 233–56.
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