1922 in archaeology explained

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1922.

Excavations

• September - Excavations at Coldrum Long Barrow in southeast England resumed by architect E. W. Filkins.
• November 4 - Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamun. He opens it in the presence of George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Carnarvon's daughter, Lady Evelyn Beauchamp, on November 26.^[1] Many associated artifacts are found, including Tutankhamun's funerary mask and six chariots.
• First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill, Avebury, England.^[2]
• Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Leonard Woolley begin.^[3]
• Excavations at Euphrates, site of Dura-Europos, by Franz Cumont.^[4]
• Excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus (Athens).^[5]
• Excavations at Sutton Courtenay Anglo-Saxon village in England by Edward Thurlow Leeds.^[6]

Explorations

• Aerial survey of archaeological sites in south western England by Alexander Keiller and O. G. S. Crawford.
• Mohenjo-daro rediscovered by Rakhaldas Bandyopadhyay of the Archaeological Survey of India.
• First of four successive American Museum of Natural History expeditions to Mongolia under Roy Chapman Andrews which will discover fossils of Indricotherium (a gigantic hornless rhinoceros then named "Baluchitherium"), Protoceratops, a nest of Protoceratops eggs (found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor), Pinacosaurus, Saurornithoides, Oviraptor and Velociraptor, none of which were known before.

Finds

• Venus of Lespugue.^[7]

Publications

• Alfred Watkins - Early British Trackways.^[8]

Births

• March 31 - Richard Daugherty, American archaeologist (d. 2014)^[9]
• July 12 - Michael Ventris, English co-decipherer of Linear B (d. 1956).^[10]
• August 3 - Su Bai, Chinese archaeologist of Buddhist grottoes (d. 2018)
• November 19 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics (d. 1999).^[11]
• Kim Won-yong, "doyen of Korean archaeology" and Seoul National University professor (d. 1993).

Deaths

• November 23 - Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (born 1849).^[12]

See also

• List of years in archaeology

Notes and References

1. Web site: Howard Carter's diary and journal 1922.. www.griffith.ox.ac.uk. 22 March 2018.
2. Web site: Windmill Hill Causewayed Enclosure, Avebury, Wiltshire. historicengland.org.uk. 22 March 2018.
3. Web site: Sir Leonard Woolley - British archaeologist. Encyclopedia Britannica. 22 March 2018. en.
4. Book: Christie. Neil. Augenti. Andrea. Vrbes Extinctae: Archaeologies of Abandoned Classical Towns. 2012. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. 9780754665625. 308. en.
5. Web site: Ministry of Culture and Sports. odysseus.culture.gr. 22 March 2018.
6. Leeds. E. T.. A Saxon Village near Sutton Courtenay, Berkshire. Archaeologia. 73. 1922–23. Society of Antiquaries of London. 147–92. 10.1017/s0261340900010328.
7. Book: Nicolescu. Basarab. From Modernity to Cosmodernity: Science, Culture, and Spirituality. 2014. SUNY Press. 9781438449654. 16. en.
8. Web site: Lines of Sight: Alfred Watkins, Photography and Topography in Early Twentieth-Century Britain. www.tate.org.uk. 21 November 2017. en.
9. Web site: Richard Daugherty dies at 91; archaeologist studied Makah tribe site. Los Angeles Times. 21 November 2017. 2 March 2014.
10. Web site: Michael Ventris - British architect and cryptographer. Encyclopedia Britannica. 30 May 2017. en.
11. Web site: Yury Valentinovich Knorozov - Russian linguist. Encyclopedia Britannica. 21 November 2017. en.
12. Book: Riedel. Franka Böck und Thomas. Blut ist ein ganz besonderer Saft: Blut & Kreislaufsystem von der Antike zur Moderne. 2013. epubli. 9783844261844. 18. de.