1936 in archaeology

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The year 1936 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Dmanisi, Georgia.
• Julliberrie's Grave by Ronald Jessup.
• Spiro Mounds by University of Oklahoma.
• Fort Hawkins, Georgia, by Gordon Willey.
• Govurqala, Azerbaijan.
• Al Mina, Syria, by Leonard Woolley.
• Excavations at Mersin by John Garstang begin (continue to 1939).
• New excavations at Viroconium (Wroxeter) in England begin (continue to 1937).

Finds

• November - Gebang Hindu temple at Yogyakarta on Java is discovered.
• Archaeologists near Baghdad discover the Baghdad battery.
• First undisdurbed artefacts of Clovis culture found in New Mexico.
• The Statue of Iddi-Ilum is unearthed in Mari
• The Mästermyr chest is accidentally discovered on the island of Gotland, Sweden.

Publications

• First report on excavations of Iron Age settlement of Biskupin.
• V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself.
• W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales.

Miscellaneous

• 6 July - Publication of Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia.

Births

• 4 April - Barri Jones, Welsh Classical archaeology (d. 1999)
• John Wilkes, English Classical archaeologist