1917 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1917.

Explorations

Thomas Gann makes the first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai in British Honduras.

Max Uhle discovers 12 Chinchorro mummies at Morro I, Arica, Chile.
Religious artefacts discovered beneath the Seven-story Stone Pagoda in Tappyeong-ri, Chungju, Korea.

Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu.

15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist (b. 1849)^[5]
27 October: Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (b. 1835)^[6]
22 November: Teoberto Maler, German explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (b. 1842)

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^ Roberts, Sam (2019-04-11). "Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101". The New York Times.
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^ Ανδρικακης, Αλεκος (2021-01-19). "Sinclair Hood". Candia Doc (in Greek).
^ "Maxime Collignon - Dictionary of Art Historians". arthistorians.info. Retrieved 18 May 2017.
^ Hoare, Peter G.; McCullough, John L. (2019). "Worthington George Smith (1835–1917)". London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions. 70: 233–56.