1917 in archaeology

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
• 28 October: Honor Frost, Cyprus-born underwater archaeologist

  Deaths

• 15 October: Maxime Collignon, French Classical archaeologist
• 22 November: Teoberto Maler, German explorer, archaeologist and writer of accounts of the ruins of the Maya civilization