The year 1954 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Mixco Viejo, Guatemala Mus e d'Homme project under the direction of Henri Lehmann starts (continues through 1967).
• Neolithic-era site of Ashkelon discovered and excavated by French archaeologist Jean Perrot.
• Excavations at Beycesultan by Seton Lloyd of the British Institute of Archaeology in Ankara begin (continue to 1959).
• Excavations at Filitosa, Corsica, begin.
• Excavations at Nagarjunakonda by the Archaeological Survey of India begin (continue to 1960).
• Excavations at Nevasa, Maharashtra, begin (continue to 1956).

Finds

• Temple of Mithras, London discovered by W. F. Grimes.
• Khufu ship discovered in Giza pyramid complex by Kamal el-Mallakh.
• Cape Gelidonya shipwreck discovered.

Publications

• Maurice Beresford - The Lost Villages of England.
• R. Allen Brown - English Medieval Castles.
• Grahame Clark - Excavations at Star Carr, an early Mesolithic site at Seamer near Scarborough, Yorkshire.
• V. E. Nash-Williams - The Roman Frontier in Wales.
• Stuart Piggott - The Neolithic Cultures of the British Isles: a study of the stone-using agricultural communities of Britain in the second millennium B.C.

Births

• July 1: William Rathje, archaeologist, garbologist

Deaths

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