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1917 In Archaeology
The year 1917 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations * Thomas Gann makes the first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai in British Honduras. Excavations * Max Uhle discovers 12 Chinchorro mummies at Morro I, Arica, Chile. * Religious artefacts discovered beneath the Seven-story Stone Pagoda in Tappyeong-ri, Chungju, Korea. Publications * Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu. Births * 14 October: Geoffrey Bibby, English-born archaeologist (d. 2001) * 15 October: Ralph Solecki, American archeologist (d. 2019) * 28 October: Honor Frost, Cyprus-born underwater archaeologist (d. 2010) * 31 January: Sinclair Hood, British classical archaeologist (d. 2021) Deaths * 15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist (b. 1849) * 27 October: Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (b. 1835) * 22 N ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Archaeology
Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, archaeological site, sites, and cultural landscapes. Archaeology can be considered both a social science and a branch of the humanities. It is usually considered an independent academic discipline, but may also be classified as part of anthropology (in North America – the four-field approach), history or geography. Archaeologists study human prehistory and history, from the development of the first stone tools at Lomekwi in East Africa 3.3 million years ago up until recent decades. Archaeology is distinct from palaeontology, which is the study of fossil remains. Archaeology is particularly important for learning about prehistoric societies, for which, by definition, there are no written records. Prehistory includes ove ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1917 In Science
The year 1917 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. Biology * D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson's ''On Growth and Form'' is published. Mathematics * Paul Ehrenfest gives a conditional principle for a three-dimensional space. Medicine * Shinobu Ishihara publishes his color perception test. * Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovers malarial pyrotherapy for general paresis of the insane. Physics * Albert Einstein introduces the idea of stimulated radiation emission. * Nuclear fission: Ernest Rutherford (at the Victoria University of Manchester) achieves nuclear transmutation of nitrogen into oxygen, using alpha particles directed at nitrogen 14N + α → 17O + p, the first observation of a nuclear reaction, in which he also discovers and names the proton. Technology * September 13 – Release in the United States of the first film made in Technicolor System 1, a two-color process, '' The Gulf Between''. * Alvin D. and Kelvin Keech introduce the "banjule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1842 In Archaeology
1842 in archaeology Explorations * Site of Masada discovered. * Karl Richard Lepsius begins an expedition to Egypt and the Sudan commissioned by King Frederick William IV of Prussia. Excavations Finds Publications * W. F. Ainsworth publishes the first report on Üçayak Byzantine Church. * Karl Lepsius produces the first modern list of pyramids. * David Roberts begins publication of ''The Holy Land, Syria, Idumea, Arabia, Egypt, and Nubia'' (chromolithographs). * First known use of the term "Industrial archaeology".Ramos, Paulo Oliveira (2014). "The use of the word "Industrial Archaeology": a theme for a journey through space and time". ''2nd International Congress on Industrial Heritage''. Porto. Births * 12 January: Teoberto Maler, Mayanist Deaths See also * List of years in archaeology * 1841 in archaeology * 1843 in archaeology References {{reflist 1842 archaeological discoveries Archaeology by year Archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teoberto Maler
Teobert Maler, later Teoberto (12 January 1842 – 22 November 1917) was an explorer who devoted his energies to documenting the ruins of the Maya civilization. Biography Teobert Maler was born in Rome to German parents. His father was a diplomat for the Duchy of Baden. Maler studied architecture and engineering in Karlsruhe, then at the age of 21 moved to Vienna where he took a job with architect Heinrich von Ferstel, and became an Austrian citizen. He was eager to see more of the world and went to Mexico as a soldier with Emperor Maximilian. He rose from Cadet to Captain. After surrendering to the Mexican Republican forces, Maler opted to stay in Mexico rather than being exiled back to Europe. Maler later obtained Mexican citizenship and changed his first name to "Teoberto", more easily pronounced in the Spanish language. Maler developed interests in photography and in the antiquities of Mesoamerica. In 1876 he made detailed photos of the structures at Mitla. In the sum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1835 In Archaeology
The year 1835 in archaeology involved some significant events. Explorations * Henry Rawlinson begins study and decipherment from the cuneiform of the Behistun Inscription. * Howard Vyse first visits Egypt. Excavations Finds * Mars of Todi in Todi, Italy. * Nike Fixing her Sandal in Athens, Greece Publications * Juan Galindo's description of the Maya site of Copán. * John Gardner Wilkinson - ''Topography of Thebes, and general view of Egypt''. Births * 25 March - Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (died 1917). * 22 June - Adolf Michaelis, German classical scholar (d. 1910). * 21 July - Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1920). Deaths * 26 July - Caspar Reuvens, founder of the Dutch National Museum of Antiquities and the world's first professor of archaeology, dies at Rotterdam (b. 1793 The French Republic introduced the French Revolutionary Calendar starting with the year I. Events ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English People
The English people are an ethnic group and nation native to England, who speak the English language, a West Germanic language, and share a common history and culture. The English identity is of Anglo-Saxon origin, when they were known in Old English as the ('race or tribe of the Angles'). Their ethnonym is derived from the Angles, one of the Germanic peoples who migrated to Great Britain around the 5th century AD. The English largely descend from two main historical population groups the West Germanic tribes (the Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians) who settled in southern Britain following the withdrawal of the Romans, and the partially Romanised Celtic Britons already living there.Martiniano, R., Caffell, A., Holst, M. et al. Genomic signals of migration and continuity in Britain before the Anglo-Saxons. Nat Commun 7, 10326 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10326 Collectively known as the Anglo-Saxons, they founded what was to become the Kingdom of England ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Worthington George Smith
Worthington George Smith (25 March 1835 – 27 October 1917) was an English cartoonist and illustrator, archaeologist, plant pathologist, and mycologist. Background and career Worthington G. Smith was born in Shoreditch, London, the son of a civil servant. He received an elementary education at a local school and was then apprenticed as an architect. He married Henrietta White in 1856 and the couple had seven children, only three of whom survived childhood.''Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'' http://www.oxforddnb.com Smith worked for the architect Sir Horace Jones, becoming an expert draughtsman and a member of the Architectural Association.Bedfordshire Libraries: Worthington George Smith http://www.galaxy.bedfordshire.gov.uk/webingres/bedfordshire/vlib/0.digitised_resources/dunstable_digitisation_people_smith_about.htm In 1861, however, he left the profession (having been required to design drains for Sir Horace) and embarked on a second career as a freelance illustrato ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1849 In Archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1849. Explorations *U.S. Army Lt. James H. Simpson leads the Washington Expedition, a military reconnaissance team which surveys Navajo lands and records cultural sites in Chaco Canyon. Illustrations created by the Kern brothers are included in a government report. *U.S. Navy Capt. William F. Lynch identifies ''Tell el Kadi'' as the site of the ancient city of Dan. *Site of Uruk discovered by William Loftus. Excavations *Tunnel dug into Silbury Hill. Publications * Austen H. Layard's ''Illustrations of the Monuments of Nineveh''. * Karl Richard Lepsius' ''Denkmaeler aus Aegypten und Aethiopien''. Finds * Find on Whaddon Chase, Buckinghamshire, England of a hoard of Iron Age gold staters. Births * November 8 — Maxime Collignon, French archaeologist (d. 1917) * December 5 — Eduard Seler, German Mesoamericanist (d. 1922) Deaths See also * List of years in archaeology * 1848 in archaeology * 1850 in a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maxime Collignon
Léon-Maxime Collignon (8 November 1849 in Verdun – 15 October 1917 in Paris) was a French archaeologist who specialized in ancient Greek art and architecture. Biography From 1868 he studied at the École normale supérieure in Paris as a student of archaeologist Georges Perrot. In 1873 he became a member of the French School at Athens. In 1876, with Louis Duchesne, he conducted archaeological research in Asia Minor, about which, he published "''Rapport sur un voyage archéologique en Asie Mineure''". In 1879 he was named professor of Greek antiquities at the University of Bordeaux. In 1883 he returned to Paris as a deputy to Georges Perrot at the Faculty of Arts, where in 1900 he became a full professor of archaeology.Collignon, Léon-Maxime Dictionary of Art Historians In 1893 he became a member of the '' |
2021 In Archaeology
This page lists major events of 2021 in archaeology. Excavations *January 29 – The Herculaneum Conservation Project announces it will begin excavations of a beach where 300 skeletons of victims from the Eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD, eruption of Mt Vesuvius in 79 CE have been discovered. *January 30 – Excavation of an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery site in west Cambridge, England, is reported. *February 4 – Preliminary excavations on the intended site of the Stonehenge road tunnel in England have uncovered Bronze Age graves and neolithic pottery among other features, it is reported. *April 30 – A World War II 'Buffalo' Landing Vehicle Tracked is excavated near Crowland in England. *May 19 – Decapitated bodies found at Knobb's Farm, Somersham, Cambridgeshire in eastern England, are victims of Roman executions in the 3rd century. Finds *January **2 – The ''Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia'' (INAH) confirms the finding of The Young Woman of Amajac, a two- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sinclair Hood
Martin Sinclair Frankland Hood, FBA (31 January 1917 – 18 January 2021), generally known as Sinclair Hood, was a British archaeologist and academic. He was Director of the British School of Archaeology at Athens from 1954 to 1962, and led the excavations at Knossos from 1957 to 1961. He turned 100 in January 2017 and died in January 2021, two weeks short of his 104th birthday. As the review in the ''American Journal of Archaeology'' forecast, his ''The Arts in Prehistoric Greece'' (Pelican History of Art 1978, 2nd edn. 1992), became a "standard authoritative handbook for years to come" on Aegean art. Early life and education He was born in Cobh, (then Queenstown, and a British naval base), Ireland, in 1917, the only child of Martin Arthur Frankland Hood (1887–1919), a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy, and Frances Ellis, daughter of James Miller Winants, of Bayonne, New Jersey, U.S., and stepdaughter of Dr. Lucius F. Donohoe, twice-elected Mayor of Bayonne. The Ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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