1938 in archaeology

The year 1938 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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Explorations

• Matthew Stirling first visits the Tres Zapotes and San Lorenzo Tenochtitlán sites.

Excavations

• 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).

Publications

• T. D. Kendrick - Anglo-Saxon Art to A.D. 900.

Finds

• 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.

Births

• March 8 - Lamia Al-Gailani Werr, Iraqi archaeologist (died 2019)
• Anthony Aveni, American anthropologist

Deaths

• February 24 - Thomas Gann, explorer and archaeologist (born 1867)