1914 in archaeology

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The year 1914 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

January - T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley undertake an archaeological survey of the Negev.
March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband William Scoresby Routledge arrive on Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departing August 1915).

Excavations

Katherine Routledge commences excavation at key Easter Island sites including Rano Raraku and Orongo.
George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Howard Carter first excavate in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
Excavations begin at Traprain Law in Scotland.
Excavation of Tinkinswood Neolithic megalithic chamber tomb in South Wales.

Publications

Thomas A. Joyce - Mexican Archaeology: an introduction to the archaeology of the Mexican and Mayan civilizations of pre-Spanish America.
Egypt Exploration Fund begins publishing The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.

Honours

John Marshall knighted.

Births

April 23 Glyn Daniel, Welsh-born archaeologist (died 1986).
June 12 William Lamplough, British archaeologist (died 1996)
June 5 Beatrice De Cardi, British archaeologist

Deaths

March 18 - Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, American archaeologist (born 1840).
May 18 - Edward R. Ayrton, English Egyptologist and archaeologist (born 1882).

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