1952 in archaeology
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Template:Short description Template:Year nav topic4 Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1952.
Explorations
- Site of Kerkouane discovered by Charles Saumagne.
- Archaeological exploration of Maijishan Grottoes begins.
Excavations
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opens the tomb of Pacal the Great at Palenque.
- Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.
- Excavations at Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin (continues to 1958).
- Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos resume (first started in 1939) by Carl Blegen (continues to 1969).
- Oscar Broneer discovers and begins excavations of the Temple of Poseidon in Isthmia.
Publications
- J. G. D. Clark - Prehistoric Europe: the Economic Basis.
- David Knowles and J. K. S. St Joseph - Monastic Sites from the Air.
Finds
- In Schleswig, Germany, Windeby I and Windeby II, bog bodies, were discovered in a peat bog during a span of three months.[1]
- Another bog body, known as "Grauballe Man" is discovered in Grauballe, Denmark.[2]
Events
- Grahame Clark is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
- August 23 - Glyn Daniel begins to present Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? on BBC Television, a game show often featuring other archaeologists and archaeological artefacts.
- Michael Ventris deciphers Minoan Linear B.[3]
Births
- March 30 - Alan Vince, British archaeologist (d. 2009)[4]
Deaths
- Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist (b. 1865)[5]
References
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