1944 in archaeology

none 1944 archaeology science Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1944. Excavations August - Excavations in the bombed area of Canterbury, England, are begun.Canterbury Excavations, 1944–8 Sheppard Frere Sheppard Frere Antiquity 23 91 1949 153–160 10.1017/S0003598X00020214 161195637 "Caesar's Camp" (pre-Roman) site at location of London Heathrow Airport. Publications Paul Jacobsthal's Early Celtic Art published in Oxford. Finds First find of 12th century Kilwa Sultanate copper coins on Marchinbar Island off the north coast of Australia. Events 31 May - Nemi ships destroyed by fire.Grummond Nancy Thomson de Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology 2015 Routledge 9781134268542 801 https://books.google.com/books?id=LeE4CQAAQBAJ&pg=PA801 en The Council for British Archaeology is formed.Murray Tim Evans Christopher Histories of Archaeology: A Reader in the History of Archaeology 2008 OUP Oxford 9780199550074 225 https://books.google.com/books?id=gL33Z7pd3-wC&pg=PA225 en Mortimer Wheeler is appointed Director-General of the Archaeological Survey of India.Sir Mortimer Wheeler British archaeologist https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mortimer-Wheeler Encyclopedia Britannica 1 January 2019 en Births 1 March - Dai Morgan Evans, British archaeologist (d. 2017)Dai Morgan Evans obituary https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/17/dai-morgan-evans-obituary The Guardian 10 November 2017 17 April 2017 6 July - Timothy W. Potter, English archaeologist (d. 2000)Wallace-Hadrill Andrew Timothy William Potter (6 July 1944 – 11 January 2000) Papers of the British School at Rome 9 August 2013 68 ix–xix 10.1017/S006824620000386X free 10 July - Norman Hammond, British Mayanist 15 July - Nigel Williams, British conservator (d. 1992) 25 July - David Breeze, British archaeologist notable for work on Hadrian's Wall, the Antonine Wall and the Roman Army 19 December - Richard Leakey, Kenyan palaeoanthropologist (d. 2022) Gabriel Barkay, Hungarian-born Israeli archaeologist References Archaeology Category:1940s in archaeology Category:Archaeology by year