List of years in archaeology       (table)
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The year 1917 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Thomas Gann makes first detailed description of Maya ruins at Lamanai

Excavations

Finds

Publications

• Wang Guowei reconstructs a complete Shang dynasty royal genealogy based on the translation of oracle bones from the site of Yinxu.

Births

Deaths

• 22 November: Teoberto Maler, explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization