Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in

1900 As of March 1 ( O.S. February 17), when the Julian calendar acknowledged a leap day and the Gregorian calendar did not, the Julian calendar fell one day further behind, bringing the difference to 13 days until February 28 ( O.S. February 15), 2 ...

Explorations

Excavations

* March 16: Arthur Evans purchases Knossos and soon after begins excavations. * Excavations by Friedrich Delitzsch begin at Assur. * University of Pennsylvania excavations at

Nippur Nippur (Sumerian language, Sumerian: ''Nibru'', often logogram, logographically recorded as , EN.LÍLKI, "Enlil City;"The Cambridge Ancient History: Prolegomena & Prehistory': Vol. 1, Part 1. Accessed 15 Dec 2010. Akkadian language, Akkadian: '' ...

conclude (began in 1888). * Gordium excavated by Gustav and Alfred Körte. * Kavousi excavated by Harriet Boyd. * Villa Boscoreale, near

Pompeii Pompeii (, ) was an ancient city located in what is now the ''comune'' of Pompei near Naples in the Campania region of Italy. Pompeii, along with Herculaneum and many villas in the surrounding area (e.g. at Boscoreale, Stabiae), was buried ...

, excavated. * Excavations at Hedeby in Jutland begin.

Publications

Finds

* April 5: A large cache of clay tablets with a script used for writing Mycenaean Greek, now known as

Linear B Linear B was a syllabic script used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest attested form of Greek. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries. The oldest Mycenaean writing dates to about 1400 BC. It is descended from ...

, is found at Knossos. * May:

Migdale Hoard The Migdale Hoard is a group of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered by workmen blasting a granite knoll behind Bonar Bridge, Scotland, near what is known as "Tulloch Hill" in May 1900. Dating from about 2000-1150 BC, the artifacts are in the c ...

of early Bronze Age jewellery discovered near Bonar Bridge in Scotland. * October: Greek sponge divers discover the Antikythera wreck. * Dr.

James K. Hampson James Kelly Hampson (1877 – 8 October 1956) was the archaeologist that excavated and preserved the artifacts from the Nodena site and owner of the Hampson Plantation in Wilson, Arkansas.http://www.arkansasstateparks.com/hampsonmuseum/ Arkans ...

documents find of the

Island 35 Mastodon The Island 35 Mastodon was discovered on Island No. 35 of the Mississippi River in Tipton County, Tennessee, United States. In 1900, a Pleistocene mastodon skeleton was excavated approximately east of Reverie, Tennessee and southeast of Wils ...

skeleton in the Mississippi River. * Site of Temple of Eshmun discovered in Lebanon.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

* May 2 –

A. W. Lawrence Arnold Walter Lawrence (2 May 1900 – 31 March 1991) was a British authority on classical sculpture and architecture. He was Laurence Professor of Classical Archaeology at Cambridge University in the 1940s, and in the early 1950s in Accra he ...

, English Classical

archaeologist Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landscap ...

(d. 1991). * May 23 –

Gustav Riek Johannes Gustav Riek (May 23, 1900 in Stuttgart − November 1, 1976 in Feldstetten) was a German archaeologist from the University of Tübingen who worked with the SS Ahnenerbe in their excavations, and led the teams that excavated the Vogelher ...

, German archaeologist (d. 1976). * August 18 – Glenn Albert Black, American archaeologist (d. 1964). * August 19 – Dorothy Burr Thompson, American archaeologist and art historian (d. 2001).

Deaths

* May 4 – Augustus Pitt Rivers, English ethnologist and archaeologist (b. 1827). * May 18 –

Félix Ravaisson-Mollien Jean-Gaspard-Félix Laché Ravaisson-Mollien (; 23 October 1813 – 18 May 1900) was a French philosopher, 'perhaps France's most influential philosopher in the second half of the nineteenth century'."Sinclair (2019), p. 1 He was originally a ...

, French philosopher and archaeologist (b. 1813).

References

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