The year 1955 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Thor Heyerdahl organizes the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island (continues to 1956).

Excavations

• A. C. O'Dell begins excavations on St Ninian's Isle (continues to 1958).
• Archaeological Survey of India begins excavations at Nagda chalcolithic site (continues to 1957).
• A Hebrew University team led by Yigal Yadin begins excavations at Tel Hazor (continues to 1958).

Publications

• Cyril Fox - Offa's Dyke: a Field Survey of the Western Frontier Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD.
• Ivan D. Margary - Roman Roads in Britain, vol. 1.
• I. A. Richmond - Roman Britain (Penguin Books).

Finds

• Greenock Coin Hoard.

Awards

Miscellaneous

• The term "Industrial archaeology" first appears in print, in an article by Michael Rix in The Amateur Historian.

Births

Deaths

• October 29 - Alexander Keiller, British archaeologist and benefactor (born 1889).
• December 15 - V. E. Nash-Williams, Welsh archaeologist (born 1897).

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