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1929 in archaeology

Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

Aftermath: The Remnants of War

Filmed on location in Russia, France, Bosnia and Vietnam, the documentary features personal accounts of individuals involved in the cleanup of war: from de-miners, psychologists working with distraught soldiers, a treasure hunter turned archeologist in Stalingrad, and scientists and doctors struggling with the contamination of dioxin used in the Vietnam War.

Andrew Moore

Andrew M. T. Moore, archeologist at the Rochester Institute of Technology

Antonio J. Waring, Jr.

These papers were brought together posthumously by Lewis H. Larson and Stephen Williams and were published in 1968 through the Peabody Museum of Harvard University.

Bad Schönborn

Franz Mone (* 12. May 1796 in Mingolsheim) a historian and archeologist

Beaulieu-sur-Mer

It was built at the beginning of the 20th century by the archeologist Théodore Reinach and is in the style of an ancient Greek villa at the time of Pericles.

Belvedere auf dem Klausberg

Georg Christian Unger based his plans on a drawing by the Italian archeologist Francesco Bianchini from his 1738 volume Del Palazzo de' Cesari.

Belzoni, Oklahoma

Belzoni is named for Giovanni Battista Belzoni (1778-1824), sometimes called “The Great Belzoni”, an Italian explorer and archeologist who was well known for his role in discovering or investigating ancient Egyptian historical sites, including the Great Pyramids of Giza.

Boronów

The written history of Boronów begins in the 13th century in documents of Casimir III, but on that area wolder relicts from Neolithic and Lusatian culture were found by archeologist in the 1920s.

Brigade Temporelle

When the series begins, 20th century archeologist Jason Spell on a dig in Mesopotamia is recruited to become a member of Delta Hand 28, a four-person operative unit of the Time Brigade, a time-travelling organization from the 40th century.

Bulić

Frane Bulić (1846–1934), Croatian priest, archeologist, and historian

Denbigh Plantation Site

Denbigh Plantation Site was one of the 17th-century sites excavated by Colonial Williamsburg's renowned archeologist Ivor Noël Hume during the 1960s.

Elmer, West Sussex

During the early 19th century Damien Cox, a British Archeologist, discovered the fossiled remains of a Sus domesticus whilst excavating in the beach area.

Evermont Hope Norton

He was the grandfather of the Ecuadorian archeologist Presley Norton Yoder.

Hadar, Ethiopia

A member of the 1973 expedition to Hadar, the archeologist Donald Johanson, returned to Hadar the next year to make the first discovery of the remains of Lucy, a three million year old fossilized specimen of Australopithecus afarensis.

Henrike Lähnemann

Lähnemann is the daughter of the theologian Johannes Lähnemann, and the granddaughter of the German medievalist Eleonore Dörner (née Benary) and the archeologist Friedrich Karl Dörner; she grew up in Lüneburg and Nuremberg, Germany.

Henry Fairfield Osborn

As a curator, he assembled a remarkable team of fossil hunters and preparators, including William King Gregory, Roy Chapman Andrews, a gentleman allegedly a possible inspiration for the creation of the fictional archeologist Indiana Jones, and Charles R. Knight, who made murals of dinosaurs in their habitats and sculptures of the living creatures.

Henry Faulds

Whilst accompanying a friend (American archeologist, Edward S. Morse) to an archaeological dig he noticed how the delicate impressions left by craftsmen could be discerned in ancient clay fragments.

Hilda Sehested

Hilda Sehested was born in Funen, Denmark, of parents Niels Frederik Bernhard Sehested (1813–82), an archeologist, and Charlotte Christine Linde (1819–94).

Jacob George Strutt

He was the husband of the writer Elizabeth Strutt, and father of the painter, traveller and archeologist Arthur John Strutt.

Jacob Kornerup

His acquaintance with the archeologist Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae encouraged him to become involved in the restoration of historical buildings in collaboration with the National Museum, leading to hundreds of drawings and watercolors which are now in the museum's archives.

James B. Pritchard

James Bennett Pritchard (October 4, 1909 – January 1, 1997) was an American archeologist whose work explicated the interrelationships of the religions of ancient Israel, Canaan, Egypt, Assyria, and Babylon.

Leroy Johnson

LeRoy Johnson Jr. (1935–2011), editor and research archeologist at the Texas Historical Commission

Lilliu

Giovanni Lilliu (1914–2012), Italian archeologist, academician, publicist and politician

Living dinosaur

German archeologist Robert Koldewey, who discovered the Ishtar Gate in 1902, seriously considered the notion that the sirrush was a portrayal of a real animal.

Louis-Adrien Berbrugger

Berbrugger (May 11, 1801 – July 2, 1869) was a French archeologist and philologist.

Louis-François Cassas

Louis-François Cassas, born to a poor family on June 3, 1756, was a distinguished French landscape painter, sculptor, architect, archeologist and antiquary born at Azay-le-Ferron, in the Indre Department of France.

Marcus Junkelmann

Marcus Junkelmann (* Oct 2 1949 in Munich) is a German historian and experimental archeologist.

Mayapan

A.L. Smith, an archeologist with the Carnegie Institute, estimated 10-12,000 people lived within the walled city.

Mudéjar

The term Mudejar style was first coined in 1859 by José Amador de los Ríos, an Andalusian historian and archeologist.

Murdostoun

The eldest, Alexander Inglis Hamilton, died on April 27, 1783; the second, Gavin Inglis Hamilton (1730–97), was the historical painter and archeologist at Rome; the youngest, Major-General James Inglis Hamilton, distinguished himself in the American Revolutionary War, and died on July 27, 1803.

North Dakota Man Camp Project

Others involved in the project include historians Aaron Barth and Kostis Kourelis, archeologist Richard Rothaus and photographers John Holmgren and Kyle Cassidy.

Pajarito Mountain Ski Area

Pajarito means "little bird" in Spanish and was first associated with the area by the archeologist Edgar Lee Hewett who was in turn inspired by Tsirege, which means "bird place" in the Tewa language.

Pinsker

Simhah Pinsker (1801–1864), Polish-Jewish scholar and archeologist

Pre-Columbian period in Venezuela

Archeologists have discovered evidence of the earliest known inhabitants of the Venezuelan area in the form of leaf-shaped flake tools, together with chopping and planoconvex scraping implements exposed on the high riverine terraces of the Pedregal River in western Venezuela.

Ptahhotep

Also, in an episode of Quantum Leap called "The Curse of Ptah-Hotep", Sam Beckett leaps into an archeologist named Dale Conway as he and a colleague uncover the tomb of Ptah-Hotep.

The Seated Scribe

The sculpture of the seated scribe was discovered in Saqqara on 19 November 1850, to the north of the Serapeum's line of sphinxes by French archeologist Auguste Mariette.

Thomas Franklin Carter

From Berlin, Carter's researches led him to Paris, where he introduced himself to Paul Pelliot of the École française d'Extrême-Orient, the archeologist and sinologist who had collected hundreds of rare manuscripts from the Mogao Caves near Dunhuang in Chinese Turkestan.

Trzcinica, Podkarpackie Voivodeship

the people of the early European Bronze Age culture created a settlement, and where archeologist found, amongst 30,000 objects, artifacts showing influence of the more advanced Carpathian Basin Otomani-Fűzesabony culture - clay wheels of toy or ritual carriages, clay animal figurines.

Villa Poppaea

Historian and archeologist Wilhelmina Feemster Jashemski began excavations on the gardens at the Villa Poppaea in 1974, and by 1993, 13 gardens had been discovered.

Villebadin

From 1969 archeologist Robert du Mesnil du Buisson worked to raise funds to restore the local manoir.

Volodymyr Antonovych

His wife was Kateryna Mykolaivna Antonovych-Melnyk (Dec. 2, 1859 - Jan. 12, 1942) who was a Ukrainian historian and archeologist from the city of Khorol (today - Poltava Oblast).

William Fulton

William Shirley Fulton (1880–1964), American archeologist who established the Amerind Foundation

Winifred Lamb

Winifred Lamb (1894-1963) was a British art historian, archeologist, and museum curator who specialised in Greek, Roman, Anatolian cultures and artifacts.

Yabrud

The city is known for its ancient caves, most notably the Iskafta cave (where, in 1930, a thirty-year old German traveller and would-be archeologist Alfred Rust made many important pre-historical findings), and the Yabrud temple, which was once Jupiter Yabroudis 's temple but later became "Konstantin and Helena Cathedral".

Zaliznyak

Leonid Zaliznyak, a Ukrainian archeologist with specialization in Mesolithic


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