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1953 in archaeology
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1953 archaeology science
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1953.
Excavations
German excavations at Uruk, Iraq resume.
Finds
Banpo, a group of 6,500-year-old Neolithic settlements on the eastern outskirts of the Chinese city of Xi'an.10.1007/978-90-481-8716-4_8 Climate Change and Desertification with Special Reference to the Cases in China Changing Climates, Earth Systems and Society 2010 Yang Xiaoping 978-90-481-8715-7 177–187
"Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert (with correspondence from the Bar Kokhba revolt of ca. 132–136 CE) identified.
al-Khader Phoenician arrowheads.Milik J. T. Cross Frank M. Józef Milik Frank Moore Cross Inscribed Javelin-Heads from the Period of the Judges: A Recent Discovery in Palestine Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 134 1954 1355623 5–15 10.2307/1355623 163381421 http://www.jstor.org/stable/1355623 2022-07-22 subscription
Jerusalem ossuaries found stored in a cave on the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem by Franciscans.
The Narsaq stick is found in Greenland, the first example of Viking Age runic inscriptions found in the country.
1st century Roman leather bikini briefs found in the City of London.Leather bkinis http://archive.museumoflondon.org.uk/MuseumOfLondon/Templates/microsites/londinium/article.aspx?NRMODE=Published&NRNODEGUID=%7B17FF26A6-FCC1-459B-905F-466E1A1512C4%7D&NRORIGINALURL=%2FLondinium%2FLite%2Fclassifieds%2Fbikini.htm&NRCACHEHINT=NoModifyGuest Living in Roman London Museum of London 2016-06-28
Events
November 21: Piltdown Man is shown to be a hoax (first presented by Charles Dawson in 1912).Ancient History in depth: Piltdown Man: Britain's Greatest Hoax https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/archaeology/piltdown_man_01.shtml BBC History 2017-05-30
Publications
O. G. S. Crawford - Archaeology in the Field (Dent).
B. H. St.J. O'Neil - Castles: an introduction to the castles of England and Wales (HMSO).
Gordon R. Willey - Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Virú Valley, Perú (Bureau of American Ethnology).
Births
Mensun Bound, Falkland Islands-born maritime archaeologist
Arlen F. Chase, American archaeologist whose work focuses on Mesoamericahttp://worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n84032933/ Chase, Arlen F. (Arlen Frank) 1953- worldcat.org 2017-06-02
Mahmoud Hawari, Palestinian archaeologist and academic
Deaths
March 24: Félix-Marie Abel, French biblical archaeologist (b. 1878)
References
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