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Overview of the events of 1929 in archaeology

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Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1929.

Explorations

Expedition under Neil Merton Judd to collect dendrochronological specimens to date habitation of Chaco Canyon.
Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, first recognized as archaeologically significant by Ridgely Whiteman.

Agora in Athens.
Amri.
Excavations at Ugarit by 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.
Chinese 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.

June 22: Beam HH-39 is extracted at the 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: Chinese archaeologist Pei Wenzhong unearths the first skullcap at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
Jade relics at Sanxingdui in China.
Mummy of Queen 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.

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)