1950 in archaeology

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1780s . 1790s in archaeology . 1800

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Explorations

• Spring: Explorations at Timna in Yemen by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues in 1951).

Excavations

• Excavations at Stonehenge by R. J. C. Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and J. F. S. Stone.
• Excavations at Wharram Percy by Maurice Beresford begin.
• Excavations at Beitin.
• Excavations at Gordium by the University of Pennsylvania Museum under Rodney S. Young begin.

Finds

• A third premolar is discovered in materials sent back to Sweden by Otto Zdansky from his excavations of the Peking Man Site at Zhoukoudian, China in 1921 and 1923
• The Upchurch Hoard is discovered in Upchurch, Kent.
• A bog body known as "Tollund Man" is discovered in Denmark.

Publications

• T. C. Lethbridge - Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas.
• V. E. Nash-Williams - The Early Christian Monuments of Wales.

Births

• January 25 - Phil Harding, English field archaeologist
• Barbara Tsakirgis, American classical archaeologist