1912 in archaeology

Excavations

• Project to excavate and restore ancient temples at Sanchi begins under Sir John Marshall (continues to 1919).
• Excavations at Viroconium (Wroxeter) in England begin (continue to 1914).
• Excavations at Uruk by Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft begin (continue to 1913).
• Excavations at St. Mary's Abbey, York, in northern England by Walter Harvey-Brook.
• Excavations at Yewden Roman villa, Hambleden in south central England by Alfred Heneage Cocks, discovering 97 perinatal skeletons.

Finds

• June - Cheapside Hoard of early 17th century jewellery from the City of London.
• June 23 - Jaw of "Piltdown Man" "found" by Charles Dawson in Sussex, England (shown to be a hoax in 1953).
• December 6 - Bust of Nefertiti from Tell el-Amarna, Egypt by a German archeological team.

Publications

• Aleš Hrdlička - Early Man in South America.

Births

• January 8: Sigurður Þórarinsson, Icelandic pioneer of tephrochronology (d. 1983)
• June 8: Don Crabtree, American experimental archaeologist (d. 1980)
• August 5: Margaret Guido, born Cecily Margaret Preston, English archaeologist (d. 1994)
• Taha Baqir, Iraqi archaeologist and Assyriologist (d. 1984)
• Elisabeth Schmid, German archaeologist and osteologist (d. 1994)

References

References

1. (2011). "Romans in the Hambleden Valley: Yewden Roman villa". Chiltern Archaeology.
2. (5 June 2013). "Who stashed the Cheapside Hoard? Exhibition sheds new light on 'most".
3. "Ancient History in depth: Piltdown Man: Britain's Greatest Hoax".
4. (2003). "The Biographical Dictionary of Women in Science: Pioneering Lives From Ancient Times to the Mid-20th Century". Routledge.