1943 in archaeology

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The year 1943 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Sterling end.
• Start of excavations at El Tajín by José Garcia Payon.
• Start of excavations at Hassuna by a team from the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities led by Seton Lloyd (continue to 1945).

Finds

• First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.

Miscellaneous

• The National Trust purchases Avebury from Alexander Keiller.
• November - Max von Oppenheim's private archaeological museum in Berlin is destroyed by bombing.

Deaths

• Aleš Hrdlička
• 26 October: Marc Aurel Stein