1914 in archaeology

Explorations

• January - T. E. Lawrence and Leonard Woolley undertake an archaeological survey of the Negev.
• March 29 - Katherine Routledge and her husband William Scoresby Routledge arrive on Easter Island to make the first true study of it (departing August 1915).

Excavations

• Katherine Routledge commences excavation at key Easter Island sites including Rano Raraku and Orongo.
• George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon, and Howard Carter first excavate in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt.
• Hiram Bingham III resumes excavations around Machu Picchu in Peru.
• Excavations begin at Traprain Law in Scotland.
• Tinkinswood Neolithic megalithic chamber tomb in South Wales excavated.
• Warham Camp Iron Age circular hill fort in Norfolk, England first excavated.

Finds

• February - Bonn–Oberkassel dog skeletal remains discovered in context with human bones in Germany; only in the 1970s is it identified as an early (c. 14,000 BP) specimen of a domestic dog.

Publications

• John L. Myres - Handbook of the Cesnola Collection of Antiquities from Cyprus (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
• Thomas A. Joyce - Mexican Archaeology: an introduction to the archaeology of the Mexican and Mayan civilizations of pre-Spanish America.
• Egypt Exploration Fund begins publishing The Journal of Egyptian Archaeology.

Honours

• John Marshall knighted.

Births

• April 23 - Glyn Daniel, Welsh-born archaeologist (d. 1986).
• June 12 - William Lamplough, British archaeologist (d. 1996).
• June 14 - Rupert Bruce-Mitford, British archaeologist (d. 1994).
• June 5 - Beatrice De Cardi, British archaeologist of Asia (d. 2016).

Deaths

• March 18 - Adolph Francis Alphonse Bandelier, American archaeologist (b. 1840).
• May 18 - Edward R. Ayrton, English Egyptologist and archaeologist (b. 1882).

References

References

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2. Street, Martin; Napierala, Hannes; Janssens, Luc. (2015). "The Late Glacial Burial from Oberkassel Revisited". Verlag Philipp von Zabern.
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4. (6 July 2016). "Beatrice de Cardi, archaeologist – obituary". The Telegraph.