1943 in archaeology



Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1943.

Excavations

 * Excavations at Olmec site of La Venta by Matthew Stirling 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

 * May 20 - Luttra Woman, a skeletonised early Neolithic bog body, is found in Sweden.
 * First finds of Gaudo culture in Campania.
 * Cache of late-medieval wax votive images at Exeter Cathedral in England.
 * "Greta", a skull found in the midlands of England, is believed to be the oldest in Britain, dated to 14,000 years BP, until redated to the late 11th century CE in 2021.

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)
 * December 17 - Heidemarie Koch, German Iranologist (d. 2022)

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)