1936 in archaeology

Events

• Pedestal of the Colossus of Nero in Rome removed.

Excavations

• Dmanisi historic site, Georgia.
• Julliberrie's Grave by Ronald Jessup.
• Spiro Mounds by the University of Oklahoma.
• Fort Hawkins, Georgia, by Gordon Willey.
• Govurqala, Azerbaijan.
• Al Mina, Syria, by Leonard Woolley.
• Excavation and identification of necropolis at Beit She'arim.
• Excavations at Mersin by John Garstang begin.
• New excavations at Viroconium in England begin.

Finds

• October - The Mästermyr chest, a Viking Age tool chest, is accidentally discovered in a mire on the island of Gotland, Sweden.
• November - Gebang Hindu temple at Yogyakarta on Java is discovered.
• Baghdad Battery discovered in Iraq.
• The Emesa helmet, from Roman cavalry, is found by looters near Homs in Syria.
• First undisturbed artefacts of Clovis culture found in New Mexico.
• The Statue of Iddi-Ilum is unearthed in Mari, Syria.

Publications

• 6 July - Publication of Agatha Christie's novel Murder in Mesopotamia.
• First report on excavations of Iron Age settlement of Biskupin.
• V. Gordon Childe - Man Makes Himself.
• W. F. Grimes - The Megalithic Monuments of Wales.

Births

• 4 April - Barri Jones, Welsh Classical archaeologist
• 12 July - John Wilkes, English Classical archaeologist

Deaths

• 9 May - Humfry Payne, English Classical archaeologist
• 10 October - Luigi Maria Ugolini, Italian archaeologist
• December 12 - Arthur Callender, English engineer and archaeologist, assistant to Howard Carter during the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb