1934 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1934.
Explorations
- Maya site of Becan rediscovered by archaeologists Karl Ruppert and John Denison.
Excavations
- Poznań University project at Biskupin begins, led by Józef Kostrzewski and Zdzisław Rajewski.
- Snaketown, Arizona, United States, under direction of Harold S. Galdwin.
- Kennet Avenue, by Alexander Keiller.
- Maiden Castle, Dorset, by Mortimer Wheeler.
- Persepolis, by Erich Schmidt.
- Qafzeh cave excavations at Mount Precipice begin, led by René Neuville, uncovering remains of Hominidae dated to ca. 95,000 years BP.
- The site of the statue of the Warrior of Capestrano, accidentally discovered this year, is investigated by Giuseppe Moretti.
- Viking Age ruins at Igaliku in Greenland, by Aage Roussell, Eigil Knuth and Poul Nørlund.
Finds
- 2 January: Warka Vase found at Uruk.
- The Statue of Ebih-Il is unearthed in Mari, Syria, by a French team.
Events
- Russian paleophytologist V. A. Petrov sees a Latin stone inscription near Füzuli, Azerbaijan, mentioning Legio XII Fulminata; its exact location is unknown.
Births
- January 1 - Khaled al-Asaad, Syrian archaeologist
- May 13 - Ehud Netzer, Professor of archeology at Hebrew University known for his excavations related to Herod the Great
- August 11 - Graham Connah, English-born archaeologist
- September 2 - Donald B. Redford, Canadian Egyptologist
- September 4 - Giovanni Colonna, Italian archaeologist of the Etruscan civilization
Deaths
- January 29 - Albert Lythgoe, American Egyptologist, curator of the New York Metropolitan Museum
- March 14 - Francis Llewellyn Griffith, British Egyptologist
- March 15 - Davidson Black, Canadian paleoanthropologist
- November 23 - E. A. Wallis Budge, English Egyptologist.