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The year 1916 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Start of first excavations at Adelsö.
• In Ireland, the burial mound at Grannagh, near Ardrahan in County Galway, is first excavated in 1916 by R.A.S. Macalister (later re-excavated in 1969 by Etienne Rynne).

Publications

Finds

• Uaxactun and the first known Maya inscription from the 8th Baktun of the Maya calendar are found by Sylvanus G. Morley.

Awards

Miscellaneous

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