1913 in archaeology

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The year 1913 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Excavations

• Excavations at Shechem by a German team begin.

Publications

• April National Geographic Magazine is entirely devoted to the discoveries of Hiram Bingham III at Machu Picchu.
• E. Thurlow Leeds - The Archaeology of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements.

Miscellaneous

• The Neolithic site at Skara Brae on Mainland, Orkney (Scotland) is plundered.

Births

• February 6 - Mary Leakey, English paleoanthropologist working in Africa (died 1996).
• March 7 - Gordon Willey, American archaeologist working in the Americas (died 2002).

Deaths

• May 28 - John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, English prehistorian (born 1834).