1943 in archaeology explained

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1943.

Excavations

• Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Stirling end.
• Start of excavations at El Tajín by José Garcia Payon.
• Start of excavations at Hassuna by a team from the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities led by Seton Lloyd (continue to 1945).

Publications

• Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes - Prehistoric Britain.

Finds

• May 20 - Luttra Woman, a skeletonised early Neolithic bog body, is found in Sweden.^[1]
• First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
• Cache of late-medieval wax votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.^[2]
• "Greta", a skull found in the midlands of England, is believed to be the oldest in Britain, dated to 14,000 years BP, until redated to the late 11th century CE in 2021.^[3]

Miscellaneous

• The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.^[4]
• November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.^[5]

Births

• July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)^[6]
• July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)^[7]
• December 17 - Heidemarie Koch, German Iranologist (d. 2022)^[8]

Deaths

• April 7 - Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (b. 1864)
• September 5 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist (b. 1869)
• October 26 - Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British Central Asian archaeologist (b. 1862)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historien om Hallonflickan. Story of the Raspberry Girl. sv. 2023-01-23. Cecilia. Jensen. Falbygdens Museum. 2021. 2022-08-26. Falköping. https://web.archive.org/web/20220826223842/https://www.falkoping.se/falbygdens-museum/upptack-falbygden/historien-om-hallonflickan. live.
2. Ursula M.. Radford. The Wax Images Found in Exeter Cathedral. Antiquaries Journal. 29. 1949. 3–4 . 164–8. 10.1017/S0003581500017273 . 161597476 .
3. Web site: Disturbing update on ancient skull found in Burton. StaffordshireLive. Mike. Lockley. Helen. Kreft. 2021-10-31. 2021-12-21.
4. Web site: National Trust, Avebury Manor. Art UK. 2 June 2017.
5. News: Berlin's Pergamon Museum exhibits Tell Halaf statues. BBC News . 29 January 2011 . 2 June 2017.
6. Web site: Peter Woodman—an Obituary. Archaeology Ireland. 7 June 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171024015414/http://archaeologyireland.ie/2017/03/20/130/. 2017-10-24. dead.
7. News: Jones . Martin . Gordon Hillman obituary . The Guardian. London. 3 August 2018 . en . 23 July 2018.
8. Web site: Alman Sanat Tarihçisi Profesör Heidemarie Koch hayatını kaybetti. arkeolojikhaber.com. 2022-01-28. fa. 2022-01-28.