1933 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1933.

Explorations

• Hull of Henry V of England's flagship Grace Dieu identified in the River Hamble. ^[1]

Excavations

• Excavations at Et-Tell by Judith Marquet-Krause begin (continue through 1935).
• Excavations at Tell Arpachiyah by Max Mallowan and John Cruikshank Rose of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq.
• Excavations at Tepe Sialk by Roman Ghirshman began (continued in 1934 and 1937).
• Excavation of the mastaba of Senewosret-Ankh at Lisht in Egypt by the Metropolitan Museum of Art concludes.
• Excavations at Tintagel Castle by C. A. Ralegh Radford began (continued through 1938).
• Gordon Vivian begins preservation work at Pueblo Bonito, Chetro Ket and Casa Rinconada (through 1937).

Finds

• August 9 - Hoard of silver denarii and a fragment of tartan cloth were found at Falkirk, Scotland. ^{[2] [3]}
• Ancient city of Mari, Syria.
• Rock art at Tassili n'Ajjer.
• The submerged site of Heracleion in Egypt is identified from the air. ^[4]

Publications

• Stuart Piggott and Grahame Clark - "The age of the British flint mines", Antiquity . ^[5]

Births

• May 11 - Anna Marguerite McCann, American underwater archaeologist (d. 2017)
• June 9 - Jerzy Kolendo, Polish archaeologist (d. 2014) ^[6]
• August 10 - Denise Schmandt-Besserat, French-born archaeologist specialising in the origins of writing and information management
• November 5 – Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick, British early mediaeval archaeologist (d. 1999) ^[7]
• November 15 – Elizabeth Fowler (née Burley), British medieval archaeologist (d. 2017) ^[8]
• Don Brothwell, British archaeologist (d. 2016) ^[9]
• Christos G. Doumas, Greek archaeologist
• Robert Sténuit, Belgian underwater archaeologist

Deaths

• February 4 - Archibald Sayce, English Assyriologist (b. 1845)
• July 13 - Mary Brodrick, English Egyptologist (b. c.1858)

References

1. Royal Navy (2009). "Ships: Grace Dieu 1420". The National Archives (United Kingdom). Archived from the original on 2011-08-05. Retrieved 2018-08-27.
2. Bailey, Geoff (2006). "The Roman Coin Hoard And The Falkirk Tartan". Falkirk Local History Society. Retrieved 2014-05-07.
3. Macdonald, George (January 1934). "Hoard of coins from Falkirk". The Antiquaries Journal. 14 (1). Society of Antiquaries of London: 59. doi:10.1017/s0003581500037926. S2CID   162434922.
4. Shenker, Jack (2016-08-15). "Lost cities #6: how Thonis-Heracleion resurfaced after 1,000 years under water". The Guardian . London. Retrieved 2018-02-11.
5. Clark, Grahame; Piggott, Stuart (2 January 2015). "The Age of the British Flint Mines". Antiquity. 7 (26): 166–183. doi:10.1017/S0003598X00007912. S2CID   162607431.
6. "Im memoriam – Jerzy Kolendo (9 czerwca 1933 - 28 lutego 2014)". Histmag.org. Retrieved 21 November 2017.
7. Welch, Martin (1999-06-23). "Obituary: Sonia Chadwick Hawkes". The Independent. Retrieved 2023-01-28.
8. Fowler, Brigid (2018), "In memoriam: Elizabeth Fowler (Burley 1957) 15 November 1933 – 7 September 2017" (PDF), The Ship, St. Anne's College, p. 109
9. "In Memoriam Don Brothwell - Archaeology, The University of York". www.york.ac.uk. Archived from the original on 10 April 2017. Retrieved 7 June 2017.