1917 in archaeology

none 1917 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1917. Explorations Thomas Gann makes the first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai in British Honduras. Excavations Max Uhle discovers 12 Chinchorro mummies at Morro I, Arica, Chile. Religious artefacts discovered beneath the Seven-story Stone Pagoda in Tappyeong-ri, Chungju, Korea. Publications Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu. Births 14 October: Geoffrey Bibby, English-born archaeologist (d. 2001)Term details http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bioId=185177 British Museum 30 May 2017 15 October: Ralph Solecki, American archeologist (d. 2019)https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/11/obituaries/ralph-solecki-dead.html Ralph Solecki, Who Found Humanity in Neanderthals, Dies at 101 Sam Roberts The New York Times 2019-04-11 28 October: Honor Frost, Cyprus-born underwater archaeologist (d. 2010)Carswell John Honor Frost obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2010/oct/26/honor-frost-obituary The Guardian 16 May 2017 26 October 2010 31 January: Sinclair Hood, British classical archaeologist (d. 2021)Ανδρικακης Αλεκος Sinclair Hood https://www.candiadoc.gr/tag/sinclair-hood/ Candia Doc 2021-01-19 el 2021-01-27 2021-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20210127200517/https://www.candiadoc.gr/tag/sinclair-hood/ dead Deaths 15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist (b. 1849)Maxime Collignon - Dictionary of Art Historians http://arthistorians.info/collignonl arthistorians.info 18 May 2017 27 October: Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (b. 1835)Peter G. Hoare John L. McCullough Worthington George Smith (1835–1917) London and Middlesex Archaeological Society Transactions 70 2019 233–56 22 November: Teoberto Maler, German explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (b. 1842) References Archaeology Category:1910s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year