1908 in archaeology
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The year 1908 in archaeology involved some significant events.
Stela at Seibal, photographed by Teoberto Maler, as published in 1908.
Excavations
- At Avebury by Harold St George Gray.
- First excavations at Samaria begin by a Harvard expedition.
- Sakçagözü excavated by John Garstang.
- Ulugh Beg Observatory is discovered in Samarkand by Russian archaeologist V. L. Vyatkin, which had been partly destroyed in 1449.
Publications
- A. Hadrian Allcroft - Earthwork of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Mediæval.
- Joseph Déchelette begins publishing his Manuel d'Archéologie Préhistorique, Celtique, et Gallo-romaine.
Finds
- Venus of Willendorf found by Josef Szombath.
- 3 July: Phaistos Disc.
- A 40,000-year-old Neandertal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France by Otto Hauser.
Births
- November 25: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian
- December 17: Willard Frank Libby, developer of radiocarbon dating
Deaths
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