1936 in archaeology

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The year 1936 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

Dmanisi, Georgia.
Julliberrie's Grave by Ronald Jessup.
Spiro Mounds by University of Oklahoma.
Fort Hawkins, Georgia, by Gordon Willey.
Govurqala, Azerbaijan.
Al Mina, Syria, by Leonard Woolley.
Excavations at Mersin by John Garstang begin (continue to 1939).
New excavations at Viroconium (Wroxeter) in England begin (continue to 1937).

Finds

November - Gebang Hindu temple at Yogyakarta on Java is discovered.
Archaeologists near Baghdad discover the Baghdad battery.
First undisdurbed artefacts of Clovis culture found in New Mexico.
The Statue of Iddi-Ilum is unearthed in Mari
The Mästermyr chest is accidentally discovered on the island of Gotland, Sweden.

Publications

First report on excavations of Iron Age settlement of Biskupin.
V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself.
W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales.

Miscellaneous

6 July - Publication of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.

Births

4 April - Barri Jones, Welsh Classical archaeology (d. 1999)
John Wilkes, English Classical archaeologist

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