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Excavations

Work begins at Pueblo Bonito and other sites in Chaco Canyon by Neil Merton Judd for the National Geographic Society (through 1927).
Work begins on the Philistine site at Ashkelon by John Garstang (through 1921).

Finds

Dura-Europos is discovered by a French army officer

Publications

Sylvanus Morley - The Inscriptions of Copán^[1]

Miscellaneous

O. G. S. Crawford is appointed as the first Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom

Births

22 January: Richard J. C. Atkinson, prehistorian & archaeologist (d. 1994)^[2]
21 May: John Chadwick, co-decipherer of Linear B (d. 1998)^[3]

Deaths

17 July: Heinrich Dressel, German archaeologist (born 1845).
Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (born 1835).

See also

References

↑ Morley, Sylvanus Griswold (1920). "The inscriptions at Copan". worldcat.org. The Carnegie Institution of Washington. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
↑ "Obituary: Professor Richard Atkinson". The Independent. 17 October 1994. Retrieved 30 May 2017.
↑ "Obituary: John Chadwick". The Independent. 4 December 1998. Retrieved 30 May 2017.

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