1929 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1929.

Explorations

• Expedition under
  Chaco Canyon
  .
• Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, first recognized as archaeologically significant by Ridgely Whiteman.

Excavations

• Agora in Athens.
• Amri
  .
• Excavations at
  Claude F. A. Schaeffer begin; first texts in Ugaritic
  discovered.
• New excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim.
• Excavations of
  palaeolithic sites at Mount Carmel, including the first of the Skhul and Qafzeh hominins, by Dorothy Garrod
  begin (continue to 1934).
• First of the Pazyryk burials in Siberia, by M. P. Gryaznov.
• Grobiņa in Latvia, by Birger Nerman.^[1]
• archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
  .
• Whitehawk Camp near Brighton in England by R. P. Ross Williamson and E. Cecil Curwen.

Finds

• June 22: Beam
  Show Low site in Arizona enabling A. E. Douglass to construct a continuous dendrochronology record back to AD 700 for the Southwestern United States
  .
• December 1:
  archaeologist Pei Wenzhong unearths the first skullcap at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China
  .
• Jade relics at Sanxingdui in China.
• Meritamen (daughter of Thutmose III)
  .
• Roman Amphitheatre at Chester (England) found by Hugh Thompson.
• Ruins of
  Kamiros on Rhodes
  .
• Guido Ucelli discovers the barges of Caligula in Lake Nemi.
• The Lyres of Ur in the tomb of Puabi.

Publications

• V. Gordon Childe - The Danube in Prehistory.

Births

• May 6: Rosemary Cramp, British medieval archaeologist (died 2023)
• July 17: Elin C. Danien, American scholar of ancient Maya ceramics (died 2019)
• September 23: Viktor Sarianidi, Soviet archaeologist, discoverer of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (died 2013)

Deaths

• Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani, Italian archaeologist (born 1845
  )

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