The Disney Professorship of Archaeology , also known as the DisneyProfessor Chair , is a List of Professorships at the University of Cambridge professorship in the University of Cambridge . It was endowed with a donation of 1,000 by John Disney in 1851, followed by a further 3,500 in a bequest at his death. John Disney is unrelated to Walt Disney . List of Disney Professors of Archaeology 1851&ndash 1865 John Marsden archaeologist John Marsden 1865&ndash 1879 Churchill Babington 1879&ndash 1887 Percy Gardner 1887&ndash 1892 George Forrest Browne 1892&ndash 1926 William Ridgeway 1926&ndash 1938 Ellis Minns 1938&ndash 1952 Dorothy Garrod 1952&ndash 1974 John Grahame Douglas Clark Grahame Clark 1974&ndash 1981 Glyn Daniel 1981&ndash 2004 Colin Renfrew 2004&ndash Graeme Barker References Tilley, C.Y., 1989, Discourse and power The genre of the Cambridge inaugural lecture. In Miller, D., Rowlands, M., and Tilley, C.Y. Eds , Domination and Resistance . London Routledge. External links http www.arch.cam.ac.uk Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge Category Archaeology of the United Kingdom Category Archaeological organisations Category Cambridge Professorships Category 1851 establishments Category Professorships in archaeology de DisneyProfessor of Archaeology no Disney professoratet i arkeologi ... more details
The Laurence Professorship of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University was established in 1930 as one of the offices endowed by the bequest of Sir Perceval Maitland Laurence ref http books.google.co.uk books?id muiI5itD3HwC&pg PA785&lpg PA785&dq 22Perceval Maitland Laurence 22&source web&ots OmLG9RDcNZ&sig 63iKUc50Pv703oHH89QlJ K9JBI&hl en&sa X&oi book result&resnum 7&ct result PPA785,M1 Statutes and Ordinances of the University of Cambridge ref ref http venn.csi.cam.ac.uk ACAD lists index.html Cambridge University Alumni ref . Laurence Professors of Classical Archaeology Arthur Bernard Cook 1931 1934 Alan Wace Alan John Bayard Wace 1934 1944 A.W. Lawrence Arnold Walter Lawrence 1944 1951 Jocelyn Toynbee Jocelyn Mary Catherine Toynbee 1951 1962 Robert Manuel Cook 1962 1976 Anthony Snodgrass Anthony McElrea Snodgrass 1976 2001 Martin Millett 2001 incumbent References references Category Cambridge Professorships Category Professorships in Classics Archaeology Category Professorships in archaeology Category 1930 establishments ... more details
The Edwards Professor of Egyptian Archaeology and Philology is a university professorial chair held at University College London . History The Chair was founded on the death of Amelia Edwards of the Egyptian Exploration Fund in 1892, who bequeathing her collection of Egyptian antiquities to University College London, together with a sum of 2,500 to found an Edwards Chair of Egyptology. Her protege, William Matthew Flinders Petrie, was the first to take the chair. Incumbents Professor Sir William Matthew Flinders Petrie , 1892 1933 Stephen Glanville , 1934 1946 Walter Bryan Emery Harry S. Smith Geoffrey Thorndike Martin , 1988 93 John W. Tait present incumbent External links http www.petrie.ucl.ac.uk william flanders petrie.php William Petrie http www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk archaeology edwards.html Amelia Edwards UK university stub University College London academics Category Academics of University College London Category Professorships in Egyptology Category 1892 establishments fr Chaire Edwards d arch ologie gyptienne et de philologie ... more details
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Year nav topic2 1857 archaeology science 1857 in archaeology Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Finds First artifacts of La T ne culture at La T ne, Neuch tel La T ne , Switzerland Battersea Shield in the River Thames Publications Empty section date July 2010 Births 27 July E. A. Wallis Budge , Egyptologist Deaths 6th May John Disney , barrister and archaeologist See also list of years in archaeology 1856 in archaeology 1858 in archaeology Category 1857 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1850s in science Archaeology Category 1857 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1857 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1851 archaeology science The year 1851 in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below. See also 1851 other events of 1851 Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Some excavation at Susa by William Loftus , who identifies the location. Publications J. Collingwood Bruce s The Roman Wall a historical, topographical, and descriptive account of the barrier of the lower isthmus, extending from the Tyne to the Solway . Daniel Wilson academic Daniel Wilson s The Archaeology and Prehistoric Annals of Scotland , which introduces the word prehistoric into the English language English archaeological vocabulary. Miscellaneous John Disney endows the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge Births 8 July Arthur Evans , rediscoverer of Minoan civilization Deaths Category 1851 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1850s in science Archaeology Category 1851 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1851 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1892 archaeology science The year 1892 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Finds Glastonbury Lake Village discovered by Arthur Bulleid. Publications Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Sir William Ridgeway is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . Births April 14 Vere Gordon Childe V. Gordon Childe , Australia n born prehistorian d. 1957 in archaeology 1957 . May 5 Dorothy Garrod , English people English Palaeolithic archaeologist of the Near East d. 1968 in archaeology 1968 . Deaths DEFAULTSORT 1892 In Archaeology Category 1892 Archaeology, 1892 In Category Years in archaeology Category 1890s in science Category 1892 in science Archaeology, 1892 In no Arkeologi ret 1892 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1846 archaeology science 1846 in archaeology Explorations Johann Georg Ramsauer discovers a large Prehistory prehistoric cemetery near Hallstatt . Ephraim Squier and Edwin Davis find and describe Serpent Mound . Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Publications John Disney publishes first edition of Museum Disneianum Journal of the British Archaeological Association first published Events The Smithsonian Institution is founded in Washington, D.C. The Cambrian Archaeological Association is founded in Wales by Harry Longueville Jones and John Williams Ab Ithel and launches its journal Archaeologia Cambrensis See also List of years in archaeology 1845 in archaeology 1847 in archaeology Category 1846 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1840s in science Archaeology Category 1846 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1846 ... more details
The year 1827 CE in archaeology included many events, some of which are listed below. See also 1826 in archaeology , 1827 other events of 1827 , 1828 in archaeology and the list of years in archaeology . Excavations Caspar Reuvens , professor of archaeology at Leiden University , begins the excavation of Forum Hadriani , an important Ancient Rome Roman site in the Netherlands . The excavation would last into the 1830s. Publications Empty section date July 2010 Finds Empty section date July 2010 Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Empty section date July 2010 Births April 14 Augustus Pitt Rivers Augustus Henry Lane Fox , archaeologist d. 1900 in archaeology 1900 as Augustus Pitt Rivers . Deaths DEFAULTSORT 1827 In Archaeology Category 1827 Archaeology Category 1820s in science Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1827 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1827 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1879 archaeology science The year 1879 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Major excavation at Babylon , conducted by Hormuzd Rassam on behalf of the British Museum . Work continues until 1882. Finds Bison, on the ceiling of a cave at Altamira , Spain . c. 12000 BC . Accepted as authentic in 1902. Publications Empty section date July 2010 Events Establishment of the Archaeological Institute of America . Establishment of the Bureau of American Ethnology Bureau of Ethnology . Percy Gardner is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . Births 13 July Alan Wace Deaths Empty section date July 2010 See also Cave art Bison Category 1879 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1870s in science Archaeology Category 1879 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1879 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1887 archaeology science The year 1887 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations June&ndash July Carl Humann works at Hierapolis . Finds A local woman digging for sebakh at Amarna uncovers a cache of over 300 cuneiform cuneiform tablet s containing diplomatic correspondence of the Pharaoh s, now commonly known as the Amarna Letters . Publications William Ivison Macadam Notes on the Ancient Iron Industry of Scotland , Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland . Augustus Pitt Rivers Excavations in Cranborne Chase , vol. 1 Events Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous The Reverend George Brown elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . Births January 27 Carl William Blegen Neil Merton Judd Deaths Category 1887 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1880s in science Archaeology Category 1887 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1887 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1993 archaeology science Explorations Excavations Start of salvage excavations at Nevali Cori , to be flooded by dam. Finds Tel Dan Stele Publications Barry Cunliffe Wessex to AD 1000 Longman . Sarah Milledge Nelson The Archaeology of Korea Cambridge University Press . Events Conservators use a sonar probe mounted with two miniature video cameras to remove any remaining clay from inside the Riace bronzes . Births Deaths Kim Won yong , the Father of Korea n Archaeology , professor at Seoul National University b. 1922 in archaeology 1922 . See also Mesa Verde DEFAULTSORT 1993 In Archaeology Category 1993 Archaeology, 1993 In Category Years in archaeology Category 1993 in science Archaeology Category 1993 archaeological discoveries Archaeology, 1993 In no Arkeologi ret 1993 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1939 archaeology science The year 1939 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Excavations University of Pennsylvania project at Piedras Negras, Guatemala ends started 1931 . Palace of Nestor in Pylos by Carl Blegen resumed 1952 69 . Publications Empty section date August 2010 Finds Matthew Stirling discovers the bottom half of Stela C at Tres Zapotes . May Sutton Hoo ship burial unearthed by Basil Brown and Edith Pretty in Suffolk , England . Awards Empty section date August 2010 Miscellaneous May 6 Dorothy Garrod is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge , the first woman to hold an Oxbridge chair. Births Barry Cunliffe Peter J Reynolds Deaths March 2 Howard Carter , Egyptologist Category 1939 in science Archaeology Category 1939 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1939 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1865 archaeology science The year 1865 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Publications John Lubbock publishes Pre historic Times, as Illustrated by Ancient Remains, and the Manners and Customs of Modern Savages . Joseph Alexander Martigny publishes Dictionaire des antiquit s chr tiennes . Finds France French archeologist Auguste Mariette discovers Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara , Fifth dynasty of Egypt . It is made c. 2510 BC 2460 BC . Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Churchill Babington elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . Palestine Exploration Fund is established. Births Empty section date July 2010 Deaths May 21 Christian J rgensen Thomsen , Denmark Danish archaeologist b. 1788 in archaeology 1788 . See also Ancient Egypt Egyptology Category 1865 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1860s in science Archaeology Category 1865 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1865 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1952 archaeology science The year 1952 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Site of Kerkouane discovered by Charles Saumagne. Excavations Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opens the tomb of Pacal the Great at Palenque . Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm H je . Excavations at Jericho Archaeology Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin continues to 1958 . Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos resume first started in 1939 by Carl Blegen continues to 1969 . Oscar Broneer discovers and begins excavations of the Temple of Poseidon in Isthmia . Publications Grahame Clark J. G. D. Clark Prehistoric Europe the Economic Basis . David Knowles scholar David Knowles and Kenneth St Joseph J. K. S. St Joseph Monastic Sites from the Air . Finds Miscellaneous John Grahame Douglas Clark Grahame Clark is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . August 23 Glyn Daniel begins to present Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? on BBC Television , a game show often featuring other archaeologists and archaeological artefacts. Births Deaths Category 1952 in science Archaeology Category 1952 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1952 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1981 archaeology science The year 1981 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations June Owen Beattie of the University of Alberta begins the 1845 48 Franklin Expedition Forensic Anthropology Project FEFAP on King William Island to trace Franklin s lost expedition . Excavations Ain Ghazal is discovered during road construction outside Amman , Jordan . Publications David Burgess Wise Automobile Archaeology Cambridge, England Patrick Stephens Ltd . Derek Roe The Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Periods in Britain London Routledge & Kegan Paul . Finds Empty section date July 2010 Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Colin Renfrew is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . June 12 Film Raiders of the Lost Ark , featuring fictional 1930s archaeologist Indiana Jones , is released. Births Deaths Category 1981 in science Archaeology Category 1981 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1981 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1835 archaeology science The year 1835 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet Henry Rawlinson begins study and decipherment from the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscription . Excavations Empty section date July 2010 Finds Empty section date July 2010 Publications Juan Galindo s description of the Maya civilization Maya site of Cop n . John Gardner Wilkinson Topography of Thebes, and general view of Egypt . Births 21 July Robert Munro archaeologist Robert Munro , Scottish people Scottish archaeologist d. 1920 in archaeology 1920 . Deaths 26 July Caspar Reuvens , founder of the Netherlands Dutch Rijksmuseum van Oudheden National Museum of Antiquities and the world s first professor of archaeology, dies at Rotterdam b. 1793 in archaeology 1793 . See also Ancient Egypt Egyptology Category 1835 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology Category 1830s in science Archaeology Category 1835 in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1835 ... more details
Unreferenced date December 2009 Year nav topic2 1922 archaeology science The year 1922 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations November 4 Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun s tomb. First excavations of Neolithic remains at Windmill Hill . Excavations at Ur by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania led by Charles Leonard Woolley Leonard Woolley begin. Excavations at Euphrates , site of Dura Europos, by Franz Cumont . Excavations at the Temple of Olympian Zeus Athens by Germans German archaeologists. 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 Egg biology eggs found in 1995 to be from Oviraptor , Pinacosaurus , Saurornithoides , Oviraptor and Velociraptor , none of which were known before. Finds Venus of Lespugue . Publications Alfred Watkins Early British Trackways . Births July 12 Michael Ventris , English people English co decypherer of Linear B d. 1956 in archaeology 1956 . November 19 Yuri Knorozov , Russians Russian epigrapher of Maya hieroglyphics d. 1999 in archaeology 1999 . Kim Won yong , Father of Korea n Archaeology and Seoul National University professor d. 1993 in archaeology 1993 . Deaths November 23 Eduard Seler , Germans German Mesoamerica nist b. 1849 in archaeology 1849 . See also List of years in archaeology DEFAULTSORT 1922 In Archaeology Category 1922 in science Archaeology Category 1922 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1922 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1988 archaeology science The year 1988 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Excavations Excavations at Troy begin by team from the University of T bingen and the University of Cincinnati under the direction of Professor Manfred Korfmann . The Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit at Crofton Roman Villa . Publications Peter Harbison Pre Christian Ireland from the first settlers to the early Celts . Finds Earring s, Crown headgear crown and rosette design rosette s, from the tomb of Queen Yabay in Kalhu modern Nimrud , Iraq are discovered. They were made in the late 8th century BC . They are now at Iraq Museum , Baghdad . Discovery of the Palatine Hill Palatine wall in Rome . ref The New York Times June 10, 1988. ref Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Empty section date July 2010 Births Deaths Einar Gjerstad , Sweden Swedish archaeologist of the Mediterranean b. 1897 in archaeology 1897 . December 25 W. F. Grimes , Wales Welsh archaeologist b. 1905 in archaeology 1905 . References reflist Category 1988 in science Archaeology Category 1988 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1988 ... more details
unreferenced date June 2008 Year nav topic2 1974 archaeology science The year 1974 in archaeology involved some significant events. Excavations Project at Lamanai , Belize begins, directed by David M. Pendergast of the Royal Ontario Museum continues through 1988 in archaeology 1988 . Finds 26 February Mungo Man , the skeleton of an individual subsequently determined to be around 40,000 years Before Present BP , discovered near Mungo Lake in New Wales by Australian National University Geomorphology geomorphologist Dr. Jim Bowler. March Terracotta Army of Qin Shi Huang . 4 April High status stone cist burial at Songguk ri , Korea , containing Liaoning style bronze dagger, jade greenstone ornaments and other prestige artifacts. 24 November Lucy Australopithecus Lucy , the skeleton of a 3.2 million year old Australopithecus afarensis , discovered at Hadar, Ethiopia , in the Afar Depression . East Han Dynasty statue of Li Bing administrator Li Bing discovered at Dujiangyan Irrigation System . Publications Mick Aston Michael Aston and Trevor Rowley Landscape Archaeology an introduction to fieldwork techniques on post Roman landscapes . Philip A. Rahtz ed Rescue Archaeology . Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous Glyn Daniel is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge . Births Deaths Category 1974 in science Archaeology Category 1974 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1974 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1947 archaeology science class infobox style background color f3f3f3 width 29em align center 1780s in archaeology 1780s sup . sup 1790s in archaeology 1790s in archaeology sup . sup 1800 in archaeology 1800 br align center Other events 1790s sup . sup Archaeology timeline Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Mortimer Wheeler excavates Brahmagiri archaeological site Brahmagiri for the Archaeological Survey of India . Stuart Piggott begins excavations at Cairnpapple Hill in Scotland . J. F. S. Stone excavates the first trench across the Stonehenge cursus . Publications Ian Richmond I. A. Richmond Roman Britain London HarperCollins History Collins . Finds The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Nag Hammadi Library Nag Hammadi codices are both discovered. The Dead Sea Scrolls were found east of Jerusalem , in caves at Qumran , near the Dead Sea . Star Carr discovered in North Yorkshire . Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous 7 August Thor Heyerdahl s balsa raft Kon Tiki makes landfall on Raroia in the Tuamotu Islands after a 101 day journey from Peru . Max Mallowan appointed Professor of Western Asiatic Archaeology at the University of London and director of the British School of Archaeology in Iraq , where he directs the resumption of its work at Nimrud . Births 28 May Zahi Hawass , Egyptologist Deaths 7 June Julio C. Tello , Peruvian archaeologist 25 August Franz Cumont Category 1947 in science Archaeology Category 1947 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1947 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1770 archaeology science class infobox style background color f3f3f3 width 29em align center 1760s in archaeology 1760s sup . sup 1770s in archaeology sup . sup 1780s in archaeology 1780s br align center Other events 1770s sup . sup Archaeology timeline The decade of the 1770s in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations 1773 Don Ramon de Ordo ez y Aguilar examines the ruins of Palenque and sends a report to the Captain General at Antigua Guatemala . 1777 The ruins of Xochicalco described by explorer Antonio Alzate. Excavations Formal excavations continue at Pompeii . 1776 October Vertical shaft sunk at Silbury Hill . Finds 1774 Discovery of reputed Roman Baths, Strand Lane , London . Publications 1774 Don Bernardo Miera y Pacheco identifies the Chaco Canyon area as Chaca on a map. The term, a Spanish translation of a Navajo word, is thought to be the origin for Chacra Mesa and Chaco . 1775 Memoire sur Venus , by Pierre Henri Larcher . Other events 1772 The British Museum acquires its first antiquities of note, William Hamilton diplomat Sir William Hamilton s collection of Pottery of ancient Greece ancient Greek vases . 1774 May 2 The Society of Antiquaries of London open the coffin of Edward I of England King Edward I . Births 1771 March 10 Georg Friedrich Creuzer . 1776 Bernardino Drovetti , Italian antiquarian and Egyptologist 1778 Giovanni Battista Belzoni , Egyptologist 1779 May 29 John Disney , barrister and archaeologist Deaths Category Years in archaeology Category 1770s in science Archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1770 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1949 archaeology science The year 1949 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations Empty section date July 2010 Excavations Excavation work recommences at the Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian , China . Alberto Ruz Lhuillier begins excavations of the Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque . Seton Lloyd begins excavations at Sak ag z . Grahame Clark begins excavations at Star Carr , North Yorkshire continues to 1951 . Finds Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues in 1949 during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago . New excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian , China unearth 5 teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone. Publications C. W. Ceram G tter, Gr ber und Gelehrte Gods, Graves and Scholars the story of archaeology . T. D. Kendrick Late Saxon and Viking Art . Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous University of New Mexico transfers lands to the National Park Service and expands Chaco Canyon National Monument , with the proviso that the university may continue scientific research. Births Deaths Category 1949 in science Archaeology Category 1949 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1949 ... more details
Year nav topic2 1926 archaeology science The year 1926 saw a number of significant events in the field of archaeology Explorations February Thomas Gann visits the Maya civilization Maya n ruin of Coba , and publishes the first first hand description of the site later in the year. Enrique Juan Palacios makes detailed description of Chinkultic . Matthew Stirling explores New Guinea through 1929 . Leo Frobenius makes the first detailed survey of the central Eastern Desert of Egypt . First survey at Tel Hazor made by John Garstang . Louis Leakey Louis and Mary Leakey discover the neolithic site at Hyrax Hill , Kenya . Excavations British Museum sponsored excavations at Lubaantun under T. A. Joyce. Uaxactun project by Carnegie Institution led by Oliver Ricketson begins. Alexander Keiller and Harold St George Gray excavate Windmill Hill, Avebury continues to 1929 . Pierre Teilhard de Chardin joins the ongoing excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian , China , as an advisor. Publications Nils berg The Anglo Saxons in England during the early centuries after the invasion . V. Gordon Childe The Aryans a Study of Indo European Origins . Finds October Johan Gunnar Andersson announces the discovery of two human molars amongst the material excavated from the Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian , China by his assistant Otto Zdansky in 1921 and 1923 in archaeology 1923 Maya civilization Maya n settlement of El Mirador first discovered Crofton Roman Villa discovered by bricklayers in Orpington, England Awards Empty section date July 2010 Miscellaneous June National Museum of Iraq Baghdad Archaeological Museum opens. Sir Ellis Minns elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology at the University of Cambridge . Births Empty section date July 2010 Deaths July 12 Gertrude Bell Category 1926 in science Archaeology Category 1926 Archaeology Category Years in archaeology no Arkeologi ret 1926 ... more details
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