The year 1934 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Maya site of Becan rediscovered by archaeologists Karl Ruppert and John Denison.

Excavations

• Pozna University project at Biskupin begins, led by J zef Kostrzewski and Zdzislaw Rajewsk.
• Snaketown, Arizona, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin.
• Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller (continues to 1935).
• Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler (continues to 1937).
• Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt (continues to 1939).

Finds

• 2 January: Warka Vase found at Uruk.

Publications

Events

Births

• Giovanni Colonna, Italian archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization.
• 2 September: Donald B. Redford, Canadian Egyptologist.

Deaths

• 14 March: Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist
• 15 March: Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist, in his office at the Cenozoic Research Laboratory with a Peking Man skullcap on his desk.
• 23 November: E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist.

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