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Below are notable events in
archaeology
that occurred in
1926
.
Explorations
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February:
Thomas Gann
visits the
Maya
ruin of
Coba
, and publishes the first first-hand description of the site later in the year.
Enrique Juan Palacios makes detailed description of
Chinkultic
.
Matthew Stirling
explores
New Guinea
(through 1929).
Leo Frobenius
makes the first detailed survey of the central Eastern Desert of
Egypt
.
First survey at
Tel Hazor
made by
John Garstang
.
Louis
and
Mary Leakey
discover the
neolithic
site at
Hyrax Hill
,
Kenya
.
Excavations
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]
British Museum
-sponsored excavations at
Lubaantun
under T. A. Joyce.
Uaxactun
project by
Carnegie Institution
led by Oliver Ricketson begins.
Alexander Keiller
and
Harold St George Gray
excavate
Windmill Hill, Avebury
, in England (continues to 1929).
Col.
William Hawley
concludes work (begun in 1919) at
Stonehenge
in England, including investigation of the
Aubrey holes
.
Roman amphitheatre
at
Isca Augusta
near
Caerleon
in
South Wales
excavated by
Victor Erle Nash-Williams
.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
joins the ongoing excavations of the
Peking Man
Site at
Zhoukoudian
,
China
, as an advisor.
Aage Roussell
and Poul Nørlund unearth 13 skeletons at
Igaliku
in
Greenland
.
[
1
]
Hilbre Islands
.
Publications
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]
Nils Åberg -
The Anglo-Saxons in England during the early centuries after the invasion
.
V. Gordon Childe
-
The Aryans: a Study of Indo-European Origins
.
Finds
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]
October:
Johan Gunnar Andersson
announces the discovery of two human molars amongst the material excavated from the
Peking Man
site in
Zhoukoudian
,
China
by his assistant
Otto Zdansky
in 1921 and
1923
.
Dorothy Garrod
finds '
Gibraltar 2
', fossilized components of a
Neanderthal
child's skull, in excavations at the
Devil's Tower
rock shelter
on
Gibraltar
.
Mayan
settlement of
El Mirador
first discovered.
Crofton Roman Villa
discovered by bricklayers in Orpington, England.
Leonidas
sculpture
discovered on the Acropolis of Sparta.
Dancing Girl
sculpture
discovered in British India.
[
2
]
Treasure buried by pirate
Benito de Soto
in 1828 is discovered at his home village in
Galicia (Spain)
.
[
3
]
Awards
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July 2010
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Miscellaneous
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June -
Baghdad Archaeological Museum
opens.
[
4
]
Sir
Ellis Minns
elected to the
Disney Professorship of Archaeology
at the
University of Cambridge
.
Births
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August 22:
Ángela Jeria
, Chilean archaeologist and human rights activist (b. 1926)
[
5
]
September 24:
Aubrey Burl
, English prehistoric archaeologist (d. 2020)
December 12:
Wang Jin
, Chinese prehistoric archaeologist (d. 2020)
Deaths
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]
July 12:
Gertrude Bell
, British archaeologist (b.
1868
)
[
6
]
December 9:
Francis Joseph Bigger
, Irish antiquarian (b.
1863
)
References
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^
Quigley, Christine (2001).
Skulls and Skeletons: Human Bone Collections and Accumulations
. McFarland. p. 80.
ISBN
978-0-7864-1068-2
. Retrieved
2012-04-23
.
^
"Pre-historic Archaeology Collection"
. New Delhi:
National Museum
. Retrieved
2021-06-16
.
^
Ford, Michael E. A. (2020).
Hunting the Last Great Pirate: Benito de Soto and the Rape of the Morning Star
. Barnsley: Pen & Sword History.
ISBN
978-1-52676-930-5
.
^
"Exhibitions"
.
www.ncl.ac.uk
. Retrieved
30 May
2017
.
^
"A los 93 años fallece Ángela Jeria, madre de la expresidenta Michelle Bachelet"
.
La Tercera
. 2020-07-02
. Retrieved
2020-07-02
.
^
Buchan, James (11 March 2003).
"Miss Bell's lines in the sand"
.
The Guardian
. London
. Retrieved
15 May
2017
.
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