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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1930.

Excavations

  • Vere Gordon Childe completes excavations at Skara Brae (begun in 1927).
  • John Garstang begins excavations at Jericho (continue to 1936).
  • Francis Llewellyn Griffith excavates at Kawa (Sudan).
  • Flinders Petrie begins excavations at Tall al-Ajjul (continue to 1934).

Finds

  • August 5 - Remains of S. A. Andrée's Arctic Balloon Expedition of 1897 discovered.
  • First fragments from an ancient boat harbour found on the bank of the Suojoki river in central Finland (one boat from site later dated to 13th century).

Publications

  • Aleš Hrdlička - The Skeletal Remains of Early Man.

Miscellaneous

  • September 11 - Max Mallowan marries Agatha Christie.
  • Max von Oppenheim opens a private museum of his Near Eastern archaeological finds in Berlin.
  • Edwin Smith Papyrus first translated.

Births

  • March 25 - John M. Coles, English prehistorian (d. 2020)
  • June 13 - Paul Veyne, French Roman archaeologist, historian
  • September 23 - Edda Bresciani, Italian Egyptologist (d. 2020)

See also

  • List of years in archaeology
  • 1929 in archaeology
  • 1931 in archaeology

References