Below are notable events in
archaeology that occurred in
1953
Events
January
* January 6 – The Asian Socialist Conference opens in Rangoon, Burma.
* January 12 – Estonian émigrés found a Estonian government-in-exile, government-in-exile in Oslo.
* January 14
** Marshal Josip Broz Tito i ...
.
Excavations
* German excavations at
Uruk,
Iraq resume.
Finds
*
Banpo, a group of 6,500-year-old
Neolithic settlements on the eastern outskirts of the Chinese city of
Xi'an.
* "
Cave of Letters" at
Nahal Hever in the
Judaean Desert (with correspondence from the
Bar Kokhba revolt
The Bar Kokhba revolt ( he, , links=yes, ''Mereḏ Bar Kōḵḇāʾ''), or the 'Jewish Expedition' as the Romans named it ( la, Expeditio Judaica), was a rebellion by the Jews of the Judea (Roman province), Roman province of Judea, led b ...
of ca. 132–136 CE) identified.
*
al-Khader
Al-Khader ( ar, الخضر) is a Palestinian town in the Bethlehem Governorate of the State of Palestine, in the south-central West Bank. It is located west of Bethlehem. According to the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, the town had a ...
Phoenician arrowheads
The Phoenician arrowheads or Phoenician javelin heads are a well-known group of almost 70 Phoenician inscribed bronze arrowheads from the 11th century BC onwards.
The first known inscription was the Ruweiseh arrowhead; it is the only one found ...
.
*
Jerusalem ossuaries found stored in a cave on the
Mount of Olives near
Jerusalem by Franciscans.
* The
Narsaq stick
The Narsaq stick is a pine twig inscribed with runic symbols dating to ca. 1000. The stick was discovered in Narsaq in Greenland in 1953 and was quickly seen as a significant find, as it was the first Viking Age runic inscription discovered in Gre ...
is found in
Greenland, the first example of
Viking Age runic inscriptions
A runic inscription is an inscription made in one of the various runic alphabets. They generally contained practical information or memorials instead of magic or mythic stories. The body of runic inscriptions falls into the three categories of El ...
found in the country.
* 1st century Roman leather bikini briefs found in the
City of London.
Events
* November 21:
Piltdown Man
The Piltdown Man was a paleoanthropological fraud in which bone fragments were presented as the fossilised remains of a previously unknown early human. Although there were doubts about its authenticity virtually from the beginning, the remains ...
is shown to be a hoax (first presented by
Charles Dawson
Charles Dawson (11 July 1864 – 10 August 1916) was a British amateur archaeologist who claimed to have made a number of archaeological and palaeontological discoveries that were later exposed as frauds. These forgeries included the Piltdow ...
in
1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China (1912–49), Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6 ...
).
Publications
*
O. G. S. Crawford - ''Archaeology in the Field'' (Dent).
* B. H. St.J. O'Neil - ''Castles: an introduction to the castles of England and Wales'' (
HMSO).
*
Gordon R. Willey - ''Prehistoric Settlement Patterns in the Virú Valley, Perú'' (
Bureau of American Ethnology
The Bureau of American Ethnology (or BAE, originally, Bureau of Ethnology) was established in 1879 by an act of Congress for the purpose of transferring archives, records and materials relating to the Indians of North America from the Interior D ...
).
Births
*
Mensun Bound
Mensun Bound (born 4 February 1953) is a British maritime archaeologist born in Stanley, Falkland Islands. He is best known as director of exploration for two expeditions to the Weddell Sea which led to the rediscovery of the Endurance,BBC News, ...
, Falkland Islands-born maritime archaeologist
*
Arlen F. Chase
Arlen F. Chase (born 1953) is a Mesoamerican archaeologist and a faculty member in the anthropology department at Pomona College, Claremont CA. Previously, he was a professor at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas and served a variety of adminis ...
, American archaeologist whose work focuses on
Mesoamerica
Deaths
* March 24:
Félix-Marie Abel, French biblical archaeologist (b.
1878
Events January–March
* January 5 – Russo-Turkish War – Battle of Shipka Pass IV: Russian and Bulgarian forces defeat the Ottoman Empire.
* January 9 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
* January 17 – Battle o ...
)
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