1950 in archaeology
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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1950.
Explorations
[edit]- Spring: Explorations at Timna in Yemen by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues in 1951).
Excavations
[edit]- Excavations at Stonehenge in the south of England by R. J. C. Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and J. F. S. Stone.
- Excavations at Wharram Percy in the north of England by Maurice Beresford begin.
- Excavations at Beitin, West Bank.
- Excavations at Gordion in Turkey by the University of Pennsylvania Museum under Rodney S. Young begin.
Finds
[edit]- March 1 - A hoard of Roman coins is discovered at Hordley Grange, Shropshire, England.
- May 8 - A bog body known as "Tollund Man" is discovered in Denmark.[1]
- The Upchurch Hoard is discovered in Upchurch, Kent, England.
- A third premolar is discovered in materials sent back to Sweden by Otto Zdansky from his excavations of the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, China in 1921 and 1923.
- Balfarg, a prehistoric site in Fife, Scotland, is discovered through air photography.[2]
- Three Roman mosaic pavements are found at Harpham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
- Stabiae (buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius) is rediscovered.
- The Garima Gospels at Abba Garima Monastery in Ethiopia first become known to Western scholars.
Events
[edit]- January 1 - Commencement date (epoch) of the Before Present time scale.[3]
Publications
[edit]- T. C. Lethbridge - Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas.[4]
- V. E. Nash-Williams - The Early Christian Monuments of Wales.[5]
Births
[edit]- January 25 - Phil Harding, English field archaeologist
- Wafaa El Saddik, Egyptian Egyptologist
Deaths
[edit]- January 27 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (b. 1884)[6]
References
[edit]- ^ "Who Were the Ancient Bog Mummies? Surprising New Clues". National Geographic. 2014. Archived from the original on July 22, 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2017.
- ^ "Balfarg". canmore.org.uk. Retrieved 8 June 2017.
- ^ Aitken, M. J. (1990). Science-based Dating in Archaeology. London: Longman. ISBN 978-0-582-49309-4.
- ^ Herdsmen & hermits; Celtic seafarers in the northern seas. OCLC 227899.
- ^ "Nash-Williams, Victor Erle". The National Library of Wales - Dictionary of Welsh Biography. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
- ^ Who Was Who 1941–1950. Bloomsbury Publishing, London. 1980. ISBN 0-7136-2131-1.