1919 in archaeology
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The year 1919 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.
Events
- 22 May: A. E. DouglassA. E. DouglassA. E. Douglass was an American astronomer. He discovered a correlation between tree rings and the sunspot cycle....
provides the first comparative dendrochronologyDendrochronologyDendrochronology or tree-ring dating is the scientific method of dating based on the analysis of patterns of tree-rings. Dendrochronology can date the time at which tree rings were formed, in many types of wood, to the exact calendar year...
datings, to Clark WisslerClark WisslerClark Wissler was an American anthropologist.Born near Hagerstown, Indiana, Wissler graduated from Indiana University in 1897. He received his doctorate in psychology from Columbia University in 1901. After Columbia, Wissler left the field of psychology to focus on Anthropology...
of the American Museum of Natural HistoryAmerican Museum of Natural HistoryThe American Museum of Natural History , located on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States, is one of the largest and most celebrated museums in the world...
for sites in New Mexico.
Publications
- Katherine RoutledgeKatherine RoutledgeKatherine Maria Routledge, née Pease was a British archaeologist who initiated the first true survey of Easter Island....
- The Mystery of Easter IslandEaster IslandEaster Island is a Polynesian island in the southeastern Pacific Ocean, at the southeasternmost point of the Polynesian triangle. A special territory of Chile that was annexed in 1888, Easter Island is famous for its 887 extant monumental statues, called moai, created by the early Rapanui people...
: the story of an expedition.
Births
- 23 October: Manolis AndronikosManolis AndronikosManolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He was born on October 23, 1919 at Bursa . Later, his family moved to Thessaloniki....
, Greek archaeologist (d. 19921992 in archaeologyThe year 1992 in archaeology involved some significant events.- Excavations:* Tel Dan.* Excavations begin at Kuşaklı .* "Jules Verne" shipwrecks at Marseilles.-Finds:* El Fuerte de Samaipata near Samaipata, Bolivia excavated by Dr...
). - Mualla EyüboğluMualla EyüboğluMualla Eyüboğlu Anhegger was one of the first female architects of Turkey. She is known for her restoration work on the Topkapı Palace harem room and the Rumelihisarı in Istanbul.Eyüboğlu was born in 1919 in Aziziye, Erzurum...
, TurkishTurkish peopleTurkish people, also known as the "Turks" , are an ethnic group primarily living in Turkey and in the former lands of the Ottoman Empire where Turkish minorities had been established in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Georgia, Greece, Kosovo, Macedonia, and Romania...
restoration architect (d. 20092009 in archaeology-Publications:*January: A publication in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences finds no evidence of a single event causing many simultaneous fires throughout North America nearly 13,000 years ago, contradicting the theory that a comet explosion may have caused the Quaternary...
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Deaths
- 1 October: Francis J. HaverfieldFrancis J. HaverfieldFrancis John Haverfield was a British historian and archaeologist.Educated at the University of Oxford, he also worked under Theodor Mommsen...
, EnglishEnglish peopleThe English are a nation and ethnic group native to England, who speak English. The English identity is of early mediaeval origin, when they were known in Old English as the Anglecynn. England is now a country of the United Kingdom, and the majority of English people in England are British Citizens...
Romano-British archaeologist (b. 18601860 in archaeology- Excavations:* Giuseppe Fiorelli takes charge of excavations at Pompeii.* Ernest Renan makes excavations at Byblos.-Finds:* Édouard Lartet discovers stone tools at Aurignac.-Births:...
). - 22 November: Sir Guy Francis LakingGuy Francis LakingSir Guy Francis Laking, 2nd Baronet was an English art historian and the first keeper of the London Museum from before its opening until his death.-Life:...
, keeper of the London MuseumLondon MuseumThe London Museum was inaugurated on 21 March 1912 by King George V with Queen Mary and Princess Mary and Prince George at Kensington Palace. It opened for public visitation on 8 April, admitting more than 13.000 visitors during the day. Two years later the collections were removed to Lancaster...
(b.18751875 in archaeologyThe year 1875 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Excavations:*Hermes and the infant Dionysos by Praxiteles or his followers, a Hellenistic or Roman copy after the original of 4th century BC is discovered in the rubble of the ruined Temple of Hera at Olympia, Greece...
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