1912 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1912 was a leap year starting on Monday. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...
Project to excavate and restore ancient temples at Sanchi begins under Sir John Marshall (continues to 1919)
Sanchi is a small village of India, located 46 km north east of Bhopal, in the central part of the state of Madhya Pradesh. ... John Hubert Marshall was an English archaeologist, excavator of the prehistoric city of Taxila in the Himalayas, in todays Pakistan, and of other sites throughout India. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Piltdown Man (Eoanthropus dawsoni) was a fraud which was perpetrated, possibly by Charles Dawson and/or others, on paleontologists from November 1912 until its exposure in 1953. ...
The finding of the Piltdown skull was poorly documented, but at a meeting of the Geological Society of London held in December 1912, Dawson claimed to have been given a fragment of the skull four years earlier by a workman at the Piltdown stone quarry.
In 1912, the Piltdown man was believed to be the “missing link” between apes and humans by the majority of the scientific community.
As a discipline, archaeology is innately prone to hoaxes.
Moorehead's study of Maine archaeology when he was the head of the Philips Academy Archaeology Department in Andover, Massachusetts.
In the early years of the Department of Archaeology of Phillips Academy* some observations were made in that part of Essex county lying nearest to Andover, and a scouting expedition was made through the Mer-rimac valley and on Cape Cod.
Our regular exploring expedition occupied the summers from 1912 to 1920, omitting 1916, which was devoted by the Director to a Susquehanna exploration not under Phillips Academy jurisdiction but for the Museum of the American Indian, New York, and to the Connecticut River survey of 1919, the report on which will be published later.
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