1917 in archaeology
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The year 1917 in archaeology
involved some significant events.
Archaeology
Archaeology, or archeology , is the study of human society, primarily through the recovery and analysis of the material culture and environmental data that they have left behind, which includes artifacts, architecture, biofacts and cultural landscapes...
involved some significant events.
Publications
- Wang GuoweiWang GuoweiWang Guowei , courtesy name Jing'an or Baiyu , was a Chinese scholar, writer and poet...
reconstructs a complete Shang dynastyShang DynastyThe Shang Dynasty or Yin Dynasty was, according to traditional sources, the second Chinese dynasty, after the Xia. They ruled in the northeastern regions of the area known as "China proper" in the Yellow River valley...
royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of YinxuYinxuYinxu is the ruins of the last capital of China's Shang Dynasty. The capital served 255 years for 12 kings in 8 generations.Rediscovered in 1899, it is one of the oldest and largest archeological sites in China and is one of the historical capitals of China and a UNESCO World Heritage Site...
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Deaths
- 22 November: Teoberto MalerTeoberto MalerTeoberto Maler or Teobert Maler was an explorer who devoted his energies to documenting the ruins of the Maya civilization....
, explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilizationMaya civilizationThe Maya is a Mesoamerican civilization, noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as for its art, architecture, and mathematical and astronomical systems. Initially established during the Pre-Classic period The Maya is a Mesoamerican...