1993 in archaeology
Encyclopedia
Publications
- Barry CunliffeBarry CunliffeSir Barrington Windsor Cunliffe, CBE, known professionally as Barry Cunliffe is a former Professor of European Archaeology at the University of Oxford, a position held from 1972 to 2007...
- Wessex to AD 1000 (Longman). - Sarah Milledge NelsonSarah Milledge NelsonSarah Milledge Nelson is an American archaeologist and a professor in the Department of Anthropology, University of Denver, United States....
- The Archaeology of Korea (Cambridge University Press).
Events
- Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes.
Deaths
- Kim Won-yongKim Won-yongKim Won-yong was a South Korean archaeologist and art historian. Noted in the discipline of Korean archaeology and ancient art history , he was one of the first people recognized as an archaeologist in Korea to receive a Doctor of Philosophy degree.Kim graduated from New York University in 1959...
, the Father of KoreaKoreaKorea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...
n ArchaeologyArchaeologyArchaeology, 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...
, professor at Seoul National UniversitySeoul National UniversitySeoul National University , colloquially known in Korean as Seoul-dae , is a national research university in Seoul, Korea, ranked 24th in the world in publications in an analysis of data from the Science Citation Index, 7th in Asia and 42nd in the world by the 2011 QS World University Rankings...
(b. 19221922 in archaeologyThe year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events.-Excavations:* November 4 - Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, on November 26....
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