1943 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1943.

Excavations

• Excavations at
  Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Stirling
  end.
• Start of excavations at El Tajín by José Garcia Payon.
• Start of excavations at
  Hassuna by a team from the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities led by Seton Lloyd
  (continue to 1945).

• Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes - Prehistoric Britain.

Finds

• May 20 - Luttra Woman, a skeletonised early Neolithic bog body, is found in Sweden.^[1]
• First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
• Cache of late-medieval wax
  votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.^[2]
• "Greta", a skull found in the midlands of England, is believed to be the oldest in Britain, dated to 14,000 years BP, until redated to the late 11th century CE in 2021.[3]

Miscellaneous

• The
  National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.^[4]
• November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.^[5]

Births

• July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)^[6]
• July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)^[7]
• December 17 - Heidemarie Koch, German Iranologist (d. 2022)^[8]

Deaths

• April 7 - Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (b. 1864)
• September 5 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist (b. 1869)
• October 26 - Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British Central Asian archaeologist (b. 1862)

References