1908 in archaeology
# 1908 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1908.

## Explorations

* January: Skeleton Cave (Arizona) rediscovered, containing remains of Yavapai massacred in the Battle of Salt River Canyon (1872).

## Excavations

* At Avebury in Wiltshire, England, by Harold St George Gray.
* At Knap Hill in Wiltshire, the first excavation of a causewayed enclosure, begun by Ben and Maud Cunnington.
* First excavations at Samaria begun by a Harvard expedition.
* Sakçagözü excavated by John Garstang.
* Ulugh Beg Observatory is discovered in Samarkand by Russian archaeologist V. L. Vyatkin, having been partly destroyed in 1449.

## Publications

* A. Hadrian Allcroft - Earthwork of England: Prehistoric, Roman, Saxon, Danish, Norman, and Mediæval.
* Joseph Déchelette begins publishing his Manuel d'Archéologie Préhistorique, Celtique, et Gallo-romaine.

## Finds

* 3 July: Phaistos Disc.
* 3 August: "La Chapelle-aux-Saints 1", a 56,000- to 47,000-year-old Neanderthal adult male skeleton, is found at La Chapelle-aux-Saints in central France by Amédée and Jean Bouyssonie and L. Bardon.
* A 40,000-year-old Neanderthal boy skeleton is found at Le Moustier in southwest France by Otto Hauser.
* Venus of Willendorf found by Josef Szombath.
* The largest ever coin hoard is found, 150,000 13th century silver pennies in Brussels.

## Births

* November 25: Jia Lanpo, Chinese prehistorian (died 2001)
* December 17: Willard Frank Libby, American developer of radiocarbon dating (died 1980)

## Deaths

* May 31: Sir John Evans, English archaeologist (born 1823)
* Frank Calvert, English archaeologist (born 1828)
