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).

Publications

• Christopher and Jacquetta Hawkes - Prehistoric Britain.

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.

Births

• July 2 - Peter Woodman, Irish archaeologist (d. 2017)
• July 20 - Gordon Hillman, British archaeobotanist (d. 2018)

Deaths

• April 7 - Auguste Audollent, French historian, archaeologist and Latin epigrapher (b. 1864)
• September 5 - Aleš Hrdlička, Czech-American anthropologist (b. 1869)
• October 26 - Aurel Stein, Hungarian-British Central Asian archaeologist (b. 1862)