1938 in archaeology

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The 1938 in archeology involved several important events.

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Explorations

• Matthew Stirling first visited the Tres Zapote site and San Lorenzo TenochtitlÃÆ'¡n.

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Excavation

• Farmstead Sites in the Iron Age in Little Woodbury, Wiltshire, England, by Gerhard Bersu for the Prehistoric Society using open-pit excavation techniques (continued until 1939, published in 1940).
• Llantwit Major Roman Villa in Wales, by V. E. Nash-Williams (continued until 1948).
• Neolithic Rinyo settlement at Rousay in Orkney (Scotland), by V. Gordon Childe (continued 1946).

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Publications

• T. D. Kendrick - Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900 .

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Find

• The Maya Caracol site is rediscovered.
• Luther Cressman, the first person to explore the area, found a 9,000-year-old sage sandals slip at Fort Rock Cave in southern central Oregon. Until radiocarbon dating verified its findings, his belief was that humans had occupied the area a maximum of 4,000 years ago.
• 'Avebury barber surgeon'.
• Bronze Head of Ife.

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Awards

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Miscellaneous

Birth

• Anthony Aveni, American anthropologist

Deaths

• February 24 - Thomas Gann, explorer and archaeologist (born 1867)

References

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