title: 1917 in archaeology
text: # 1917 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1917.
  
  ## Explorations
  
  * Thomas Gann makes the first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai in British Honduras.
  
  ## Excavations
  
  * Max Uhle discovers 12 Chinchorro mummies at Morro I, Arica, Chile.
  * Religious artefacts discovered beneath the Seven-story Stone Pagoda in Tappyeong-ri, Chungju, Korea.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu.
  
  ## Births
  
  * 14 October: Geoffrey Bibby, English-born archaeologist (d. 2001)
  * 15 October: Ralph Solecki, American archeologist (d. 2019)
  * 28 October: Honor Frost, Cyprus-born underwater archaeologist (d. 2010)
  * 31 January: Sinclair Hood, British classical archaeologist (d. 2021)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * 15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist (b. 1849)
  * 27 October: Worthington George Smith, English illustrator, palaeolithic archaeologist and mycologist (b. 1835)
  * 22 November: Teoberto Maler, German explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization (b. 1842)
  