The year 1929 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.

Excavations

• Agora in Athens.
• Amri.
• Excavations at Ugarit by Claude F. A. Schaeffer begin.
• New excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim.
• Excavations of palaeolithic sites at Mount Carmel by Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1934).
• Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

Finds

• 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
• Mummy of Queen Meryet-Amun (daughter of Tuthmosis III)
• Roman Amphitheatre at Chester found by Hugh Thompson
• Ruins of Kamiros on Rhodes
• Guido Ucelli discovers the legendary barges of Caligula in Lake Nemi
• The Lyres of Ur is the tomb of Puabi

Publications

• V. Gordon Childe - The Danube in Prehistory.

Births

Deaths

• Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani, Italian archaeologist

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