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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.
  • Another bog body, known as "Grauballe Man" is discovered in Grauballe, Denmark.

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.

Births

  • March 30 - Alan Vince, British archaeologist (d. 2009)

Deaths

  • Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist (b. 1865)

References