1936 in archaeology

Events

• Pedestal of the Colossus of Nero in Rome removed.

Excavations

• Dmanisi historic site, Georgia.
• Julliberrie's Grave by Ronald Jessup.
• Spiro Mounds by the University of Oklahoma.
• Fort Hawkins, Georgia, by Gordon Willey.
• Govurqala, Azerbaijan.
• Al Mina, Syria, by Leonard Woolley.
• Excavation and identification of necropolis at Beit She'arim.
• Excavations at Mersin by John Garstang begin (continue to 1939).
• New excavations at Viroconium (Wroxeter) in England begin (continue to 1937).

Finds

• October - The Mästermyr chest, a Viking Age tool chest, is accidentally discovered in a mire on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
• November - Gebang Hindu temple at Yogyakarta on Java is discovered.
• Baghdad Battery discovered in Iraq.
• The Emesa helmet, from Roman cavalry, is found by looters near Homs in Syria.
• First undisturbed artefacts of Clovis culture found in New Mexico.
• The Statue of Iddi-Ilum is unearthed in Mari, Syria.

Publications

• 6 July - Publication of Agatha Christie's novel Murder in Mesopotamia.
• First report on excavations of Iron Age settlement of Biskupin.
• V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself.
• W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales.

Births

• 4 April - Barri Jones, Welsh Classical archaeologist (d. 1999)
• 12 July - John Wilkes, English Classical archaeologist

Deaths

• 9 May - Humfry Payne, English Classical archaeologist (b. 1902)
• 10 October - Luigi Maria Ugolini, Italian archaeologist (b. 1895)
• December 12 - Arthur Callender, English engineer and archaeologist, assistant to Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (b. 1875)

References

References

1. Nash, Ernest. (1961). "Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Rome". Frederick A. Praeger.
2. (22 July 1999). "Barri Jones".
3. "Ugolini, Luigi M. (Luigi Maria) 1895-1936".