1938_in_archaeology Knowpia

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1938.

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The Iron Age farmstead site at Little Woodbury, Wiltshire, England, by Gerhard Bersu for the Prehistoric Society using open area excavation techniques (continues to 1939; published 1940).
Llantwit Major Roman Villa in Wales, by V. E. Nash-Williams (continues to 1948).
The Neolithic settlement of Rinyo on Rousay in Orkney, Scotland, by V. Gordon Childe (resumed 1946).

T. D. Kendrick - Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900.
Wilhelm König - "Ein Galvanisches Element aus der Partherzeit?". Forschungen und Fortschritte 14:8–9 (on the "Baghdad Battery").

June - TM 1517, first remains of Paranthropus robustus, from Kromdraai fossil site in South Africa.^[1]
Maya site of Caracol is rediscovered.
Luther Cressman, the first to explore the region, discovers preserved 9,000-year-old shredded sage sandals at Fort Rock Cave in south central Oregon, USA. Until radiocarbon dating verifies his find, his belief has been that humans had occupied the area a maximum of 4,000 years ago.
'Barber surgeon of Avebury'.
Bronze Head from Ife.

^ Broom, R. (1938). "The Pleistocene Anthropoid Apes of South Africa". Nature. 142 (3591): 377–339. Bibcode:1938Natur.142..377B. doi:10.1038/142377a0.
^ "Aveni, Anthony F. (Anthony Francis), 1938- - Full record view - Libraries Australia Search". nla.gov.au. Retrieved 2017-05-31.