1935 in archaeology

Excavations

• September 18: Excavation of the Kirkhaugh cairns in Northumberland (England) by Herbert Maryon begins.
• December: Chinese prehistorian Jia Lanpo appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man site in Zhoukoudian, China.

Finds

• February 28: The Ladby ship Viking grave is discovered on Funen in Denmark.
• June 29: First portion of Swanscombe skull, belonging to a woman from 400,000 BP, is discovered in England.
• October 7: The skeleton of the Mesolithic Loschbour man is discovered in Mullerthal, Luxembourg.
• A hoard of more than 11,000 Celtic coins is discovered at La Marquanderie on the Channel Island of Jersey.
• The mural of the Investiture of Zimrilim is discovered in Mari, Syria.
• Viking Age ruins at Narsaq in Greenland are discovered by Aage Roussell.

Events

• July: The Ahnenerbe is established in Nazi Germany as a division of the Schutzstaffel "for the Study of the History of Primeval Ideas" in support of Nazi racial ideology.
• August 2: The is raised from Lake Champlain.
• V. Gordon Childe delivers the inaugural Presidential address to The Prehistoric Society in England on 'Changing Methods and Aims in Prehistory'.
• Col. William Hawley reburies cremated human remains in A47 of the Aubrey holes at Stonehenge in England.

Awards

• Leonard Woolley knighted for his work in archaeology.

Births

• January 19: Robin Birley, English archaeologist, director of excavations at the Roman site of Vindolanda (d. 2018)

Deaths

• May 11: Edward Herbert Thompson, American Mayanist (b. 1857)
• May 19: T. E. Lawrence, British archaeologist of the Middle East, military officer, diplomat and author, result of motorcycle accident (b. 1888)
• December 2: James Henry Breasted, American Egyptologist (b. 1865)

References

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