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Overview of the events of 1937 in archaeology
Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1937 .
Excavations
Uaxactun project by
Carnegie Institution led by
Oliver Ricketson ends.
Excavations at
Vergina conducted by
University of Thessaloniki .
Major excavations begin at
Avebury by
Alexander Keiller (continue until 1939).
Excavations at
Alalakh ,
Turkey , conducted by
Leonard Woolley , begin (continue until 1949, interrupted by
World War II ).
Excavations at
Nagar, Syria , conducted by
Max Mallowan , begin (continue until 1938).
Chinese excavations at
Peking Man Site in
Zhoukoudian , begun in
1927 by
Davidson Black , and
Yinxu , begun in
1928 by Li Chi, come to an end with the outbreak of the
Second Sino-Japanese War .
Excavations begin at the
neolithic site of
Hyrax Hill ,
Kenya , by
Mary Leakey (continue until 1938).
Major excavations begin at the
Hohlenstein-Stadel cave in Germany, conducted by
Robert Wetzel and
Otto Völzing (continue until August 1939).
Recording of standing medieval buildings by
William A. Pantin and excavations beneath site and
stratigraphy of medieval pottery by
Rupert Bruce-Mitford on construction site for New
Bodleian Library in
Oxford , one of the earliest instances of
rescue archaeology in
England .
[1]
Excavation of 'Caesar's Camp'
Iron Age
hillfort on
Wimbledon Common in London.
[2]
Expedition to the
Nuuk district of
Greenland by a Polish team led by
Aage Roussell .
Finds
Publications
Events
Births
Deaths
References