1943 in archaeology
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).
Publications
- Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes - Prehistoric Britain.
Finds
- First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
- Cache of late-medieval wax votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.[1]
Miscellaneous
- The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.[2]
- November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.[3]
Births
- July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)[4]
- July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)[5]
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
- Radford, Ursula M. (1949). "The Wax Images Found in Exeter Cathedral". Antiquaries Journal. 29: 164–8.
- "National Trust, Avebury Manor". Art UK. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- "Berlin's Pergamon Museum exhibits Tell Halaf statues". BBC News. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- "Peter Woodman—an Obituary". Archaeology Ireland. Archived from the original on 2017-10-24. Retrieved 7 June 2017.
- Jones, Martin (23 July 2018). "Gordon Hillman obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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