1952 in archaeology
Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1952.
Explorations
- Site of Kerkouane discovered by Charles Saumagne.
- Archaeological exploration of Maijishan Grottoes begins.
Excavations
- Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opens the tomb of Pacal the Great at Palenque.
- Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.
- Excavations at Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin.
- Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos resume by Carl Blegen.
- Oscar Broneer discovers and begins excavations of the Temple of Poseidon in Isthmia.
Publications
- J. G. D. Clark - Prehistoric Europe: the Economic Basis.
- David Knowles and J. K. S. St Joseph - Monastic Sites from the Air.
Finds
- In Schleswig, Germany, Windeby I and Windeby II, bog bodies, were discovered in a peat bog during a span of three months.
- Another bog body, known as "Grauballe Man" is discovered in Grauballe, Denmark.
Events
- Grahame Clark is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
- August 23 - Glyn Daniel begins to present Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? on BBC Television, a game show often featuring other archaeologists and archaeological artefacts.
- Michael Ventris deciphers Minoan Linear B.
Births
- March 30 - Alan Vince, British archaeologist
Deaths
- Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist