1920 in archaeology

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1780s ^. 1790s in archaeology ^. 1800

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Excavations

• Work begins at Pueblo Bonito and other sites in Chaco Canyon by Neil Merton Judd for the National Geographic Society (through 1927).
• Work begins on the Philistine site at Ashkelon by John Garstang (through 1921).

Finds

• Dura-Europos is discovered by a French army officer

Publications

• The Inscriptions of Copán by Sylvanus Morley

Miscellaneous

• O. G. S. Crawford is appointed as the first Archaeology Officer of the Ordnance Survey in the United Kingdom

Births

• Richard J. C. Atkinson, prehistorian & archaeologist
• 21 May: John Chadwick, co-decipherer of Linear B

Deaths

• 17 July: Heinrich Dressel, German archaeologist (born 1845).
• Robert Munro, Scottish archaeologist (born 1835).

See also

• List of years in archaeology
• 1919 in archaeology
• 1921 in archaeology