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1903 in archaeology
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1903 archaeology science
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1903.
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).
Excavations at Orchomenus (Boeotia) are begun by a team from the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities led by Heinrich Bulle and Adolf Furtwängler (continue until 1905).The scientific work https://www.mthv.gr/en/the-museum/the-scientific-work/ Archaeological Museum of Thebes November 23, 2017
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. http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?search=cave&getnext=89335 Gough's Cave excavation Natural History Museum, London August 22, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20090727103622/http://piclib.nhm.ac.uk/piclib/www/image.php?search=cave&getnext=89335 July 27, 2009 dead
KV43, the tomb of Pharaoh Thutmose IV, and the burial chamber of KV20, the original tomb of Thutmose I, in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt, are discovered by Howard Carter for Theodore M. Davis.Howard Carter Percy E. Newberry The Tomb of Thoutmôsis IV https://archive.org/details/tombofthoutmsi00cart Westminster Constable 1904
The first Ramesses III prisoner tiles are found by sebakh-diggers in Egypt.
Elk's Head of Huittinen, a Mesolithic stone carving, is found in southern Finland.
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 City.Works of Art Collection Database http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/collection_database/greek_and_roman_art/cubiculum_bedroom_from_the_villa_of_p_fannius_synistor/objectview.aspx?collID=13&OID=130007491 Metropolitan Museum of Art June 27, 2011
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).
Births
March 22 – Mary Chubb, English archaeologist and author working in Egypt and the Near East (died 2003)
August 7 – Louis Leakey, Kenyan paleoanthropologist (died 1972)https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Leakey Louis Leakey Britannica.com May 29, 2017
Kenneth Murray, English-born archaeologist working in Nigeria (died 1972)
Deaths
Deaths in 1903
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