1903 in archaeology

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The year 1903 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Thomas Gann makes first scholarly investigation of Lubaantun.
Raphael Pumpelly explores at Anau in Turkestan.

Excavations

Excavations at Assur are continued by a team from the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft led initially by Robert Koldewey (continue until 1913).

Publications

G. Baldwin Brown - The Arts in Early England, vol. 1.
Teoberto Maler - Researches in the Central Portion of the Usumatsintla Valley: report of explorations for the Museum, 1898-1900, vol. 2, completing a detailed description of Yaxchilan and nearby Maya sites (Peabody Institute).

Finds

The remains of "Cheddar Man" are found within Gough's Cave in Cheddar Gorge, Britain’s oldest complete human skeleton, dating to approximately 7150 BCE.^[1]
KV43, the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose IV in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, is discovered by Howard Carter for Theodore M. Davis.^[2]

Miscellaneous

Salomon Reinach suggests that cave paintings are expressions of "sympathetic magic".
Cubiculum (bedroom) from the Villa of P. Fannius Synistor at Boscoreale, near Pompeii, with fresco wall paintings (c.50–40 BCE) first installed at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.^[3]

Births

August 7 - Louis Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist (died 1972)
Kenneth Murray, English-born archaeologist working in Nigeria (died 1972)

References

↑ "Gough's Cave excavation". Natural History Museum. Retrieved 2007-08-22.
↑ Carter, Howard; Newberry, Percy E. (1904). The Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV. Westminster: Constable.
↑ "Works of Art Collection Database". Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 2011-06-27.

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