1943 in archaeology

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The year 1943 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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).

First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
Cache of late-medieval wax votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.[1]
"Greta", a skull found in the midlands of England, is believed to be the oldest in Britain, dated to 14,000 years BP, until redated to the late 11th century CE in 2021.[2]

The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.[3]
November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.[4]

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)

Radford, Ursula M. (1949). "The Wax Images Found in Exeter Cathedral". Antiquaries Journal. 29: 164–8.
Lockley, Mike; Kreft, Helen (2021-10-31). "Disturbing update on ancient skull found in Burton". StaffordshireLive. Retrieved 2021-12-21.
"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. London. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
"Alman Sanat Tarihçisi Profesör Heidemarie Koch hayatını kaybetti". arkeolojikhaber.com (in Persian). 2022-01-28. Retrieved 2022-01-28.

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