The year 1946 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Bonampak first visited by non-Mayans.
• Maria Reiche begins to map the Nazca Lines.

Excavations

• Ferriby Boats 1 and 2 excavated.
• Three-year excavation of Eridu by Fuad Safar and Seton Lloyd of the Iraqi Directorate General of Antiquities and Heritage begins.

Publications

Finds

• Lacandon Maya lead photographer/explorer Giles Healey to Bonampak.
• Filitosa, Corsica, discovered.

Awards

Miscellaneous

Births

• 1 July - Mick Aston, English landscape archaeologist and archaeological populariser.

Deaths

• 17 November - Max von Oppenheim, German Near Eastern archaeologist (born 1860).

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