The year 1958 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

Excavations

• Maya site of Dzibilchaltun, National Geographic Society project under E. Wyllys Andrews IV.
• Excavation project at Sardis by Harvard University and Cornell University begins.
• Excavation at Great Zimbabwe under Roger Summers.
• Excavations at Adlun in Southern Lebanon under Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1963).
• Excavations at Vaishali in Bihar begin (continue to 1962).

Finds

• Workshop of Phidias at Olympia.
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• July 4: St Ninian's Isle Treasure by Douglas Coutts.

Publications

• M. W. Beresford and J. K. S. St Joseph - Medieval England : an aerial survey.
• John Chadwick - The Decypherment of Linear B.
• Gordon R. Willey and Philip Phillips - Method and Theory in American Archaeology.

Births

• May 18: David Mattingly, British archaeologist and historian of the Roman world.

Deaths

• August 17: John Marshall (archaeologist)

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