Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in

1949 Events January * January 1 – A United Nations-sponsored ceasefire brings an end to the Indo-Pakistani War of 1947. The war results in a stalemate and the division of Kashmir, which still continues as of 2022. * January 2 – Luis ...

Events

* November 21–23 - First '' Internationales Sachsensymposion'' held. * University of New Mexico transfers lands to the National Park Service and expands

Chaco Canyon National Monument Chaco may refer to: Places in South America * Chaco Basin, spanning Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay * Chaco Department, a historical department in Paraguay and proposed in Bolivia * Chaco Province, a province in the northeastern part of Argenti ...

, with the proviso that the university may continue scientific research.

Excavations

* February 15 -

Gerald Lankester Harding Gerald Lankester Harding (8 December 1901 – 11 February 1979) was a British archaeologist who was the director of the Department of Antiquities of Jordan from 1936 to 1956. His tenure spanned the period in which the Dead Sea Scrolls were disco ...

and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls. * Excavation work recommences at the Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian,

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. * Alberto Ruz Lhuillier begins excavations of the Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque. * Seton Lloyd begins excavations at

Sakçagözü Sakçagözü, also known as Keferdiz, is a neighbourhood of the municipality and district of Nurdağı, Gaziantep Province, Turkey. Its population is 3,920 (2022). Before the 2013 reorganisation, it was a town (''belde''). The village is populate ...

. * Grahame Clark begins excavations at Star Carr, North Yorkshire (continues to 1951). * Conclusion of excavations in the Vatican Necropolis.

Finds

Radiocarbon dating Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon. The method was dev ...

technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago. *

Anak Tomb No. 3 Anak Tomb No. 3 is a chamber tomb of Goguryeo located in Anak, South Hwanghae, North Korea. It is known for mural paintings and an epitaph. It is part of the Complex of Koguryo Tombs. It was discovered in 1949 with valuable treasures stolen, but ...

(dated 357 CE) found in North Korea. * New excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian,

unearth 5 teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone. * First new discoveries of Nimrud ivories by British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by

Max Mallowan Sir Max Edgar Lucien Mallowan (6 May 1904 – 19 August 1978) was a prominent British archaeologist, specialising in ancient Middle Eastern history. He was the second husband of Dame Agatha Christie. Life and work Born Edgar Mallowan in Wands ...

. * 12th century murals discovered in

Coombes Church Coombes Church is a Church of England parish church in the rural hamlet of Coombes in the Adur District of West Sussex, England. It has served the rural parish, northwest of Shoreham-by-Sea and next to the River Adur, since the 11th century. De ...

, West Sussex, England.

Publications

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C. W. Ceram upright=.85, Original German cover of ''Gods, Graves and Scholars: The Story of Archaeology'' (1949)C. W. Ceram (20 January 1915 – 12 April 1972) was the pseudonym of German journalist, editor at Rowohlt Verlag, and author Kurt Wilhelm Marek ...

' - ''Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte'' ('' Gods, Graves and Scholars: the story of archaeology''). *

T. D. Kendrick Sir Thomas Downing Kendrick (1 April 1895 – 2 November 1979) was a British archaeologist and art historian. Life Early life Kendrick was born on 1 April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham, England to Fanny Susan (nee Downing, bor ...

- ''Late Saxon and Viking Art''.

Awards

Births

Dolores Piperno Dolores Rita Piperno (born 1949) is an American archaeologist specializing in archaeobotany. She is a senior scientist emeritus of the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute in Balboa, Panama and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

- American archaeologist

Deaths

* 23 April - Percy Newberry, English archaeologist (b.

1869 Events January–March * January 3 – Abdur Rahman Khan is defeated at Tinah Khan, and exiled from Afghanistan. * January 5 – Scotland's oldest professional football team, Kilmarnock F.C., is founded. * January 20 – E ...

)

References

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