Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1901
Events
January
* January 1 – The Crown colony, British colonies of New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia, Tasmania, Victoria (Australia), Victoria and Western Australia Federation of Australia, federate as the Australia, ...
.
Events
*
British School at Rome
The British School at Rome (BSR) is an interdisciplinary research centre supporting the arts, humanities and architecture.
History
The British School at Rome (BSR) was established in 1901 and granted a UK Royal Charter in 1912. Its mission is " ...
established.
Excavations
*
KV44 at the
Valley of the Kings,
Egypt by
Howard Carter
Howard Carter (9 May 18742 March 1939) was a British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the intact tomb of the 18th Dynasty Pharaoh Tutankhamun in November 1922, the best-preserved pharaonic tomb ever found in the Valley of the K ...
and
Donald P. Ryan Donald P. Ryan (born 1957) is an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, writer and a member of the Division of Humanities at Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington. His areas of research interest include Egyptian archaeology, Polynesian a ...
.
* Excavations and renovations at
Mitla conducted by Leopoldo Batres.
* Excavation of the
Minoan town at
Gournia by
Harriet Boyd-Hawes and
Blanche Wheeler Williams begins (continues to 1904).
Finds
* December:
Code of Hammurabi
The Code of Hammurabi is a Babylonian legal text composed 1755–1750 BC. It is the longest, best-organised, and best-preserved legal text from the ancient Near East. It is written in the Old Babylonian dialect of Akkadian, purportedly by Hamm ...
at
Susa
Susa ( ; Middle elx, 𒀸𒋗𒊺𒂗, translit=Šušen; Middle and Neo- elx, 𒋢𒋢𒌦, translit=Šušun; Neo-Elamite and Achaemenid elx, 𒀸𒋗𒐼𒀭, translit=Šušán; Achaemenid elx, 𒀸𒋗𒐼, translit=Šušá; fa, شوش ...
.
*
Ivory Bangle Lady in
York, England, the skeleton and grave goods of a later fourth century high-status, possibly Christian, inhabitant of
Eboracum, much later identified as of mixed race.
*
Heracles of Antikythera in the
Antikythera wreck,
Greece.
Publications
Miscellaneous
*
Edward Herbert Thompson buys the ruins of
Chichen Itza
Chichen Itza , es, Chichén Itzá , often with the emphasis reversed in English to ; from yua, Chiʼchʼèen Ìitshaʼ () "at the mouth of the well of the Itza people" was a large pre-Columbian city built by the Maya people of the Terminal ...
for 75 United States dollars
* General Land Office special agent S. J. Holsinger recommends creating a national park to preserve archaeological sites in
Chaco Canyon
Births
*February 15 –
André Parrot, French archaeologist of the Near East (d. 1980)
*July 17 –
Theresa Goell, American archaeologist of the Near East (d. 1985)
*October 18 –
A. Ledyard Smith A. Ledyard Smith (full name Augustus Ledyard Smith) (1901–1985) was an American archaeologist who worked on various projects in the Maya region on behalf of the Carnegie Institution, including Uaxactun. From 1958 to 1963 he led investigations ...
, American archaeologist of the Americas (d. 1985)
*October 27 –
Aage Roussell, Danish archaeologist of Greenland (d. 1972)
*
Charles Green, English archaeologist (d. 1972)
Deaths
* May 10 –
Christian Maclagan,
Scottish
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*Scottish Gaelic, a Celtic Goidelic language of the Indo-European language family native to Scotland
*Scottish English
*Scottish national identity, the Scottish ide ...
antiquary
An antiquarian or antiquary () is an fan (person), aficionado or student of antiquities or things of the past. More specifically, the term is used for those who study history with particular attention to ancient artifact (archaeology), artifac ...
(b. 1811)
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