1932 in archaeology

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The year 1932 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations of Antioch begun by an international committee (until 1939).
The first organized excavations, to be pursued until 1942, are started in Classical Period Smyrna by Rudolf Naumann and Selahattin Kantar, after preliminary explorations made in 1927.
Excavations of Troy begun by Carl Blegen (until 1938).
Brattahlid, home of Erik the Red, is excavated by Danish archaeologists in southern Greenland.
Clovis, New Mexico, excavations reveal the tools of the Clovis culture.
Excavation of a 'tumulus' in the grounds of Fawley Court in England proves it to have been created in 1731.

William F. Albright - The Archaeology of Palestine and the Bible.
R. G. Collingwood - Roman Britain.
Cyril Fox - The Personality of Britain: its influence on inhabitant and invader in prehistoric and early historic times.
Mary Hamilton Swindler becomes the first woman editor-in-chief of the American Journal of Archaeology

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