1900 in archaeology

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1900 in archaeology

Explorations

Excavations

• March 16: Arthur Evans purchases Knossos and soon after begins excavations
• University of Pennsylvania excavations at Nippur conclude (begun in 1888)

Publications

Finds

• October: Greek sponge divers discover the Antikythera wreck

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

Deaths

• May 4: Augustus Pitt Rivers, ethnologist & archaeologist

See also

• list of years in archaeology
• 1899 in archaeology
• 1901 in archaeology

 

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