1929 in archaeology

Explorations

• Expedition under Neil Merton Judd to collect dendrochronological specimens to date habitation of Chaco Canyon.
• Blackwater Draw, New Mexico, first recognized as archaeologically significant by Ridgely Whiteman.

  Excavations

• Agora in Athens.
• Amri.
• Excavations at Ugarit by Claude F. A. Schaeffer begin; first texts in Ugaritic discovered.
• New excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim.
• Excavations of palaeolithic sites at Mount Carmel, including the first of the Skhul and Qafzeh hominins, by Dorothy Garrod begin.
• First of the Pazyryk burials in Siberia, by M. P. Gryaznov.
• Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

  Finds

• June 22: Beam HH-39 is extracted at the Show Low site in Arizona enabling A. E. Douglass to construct a continuous dendrochronology record back to AD 700 for the Southwestern United States.
• December 1: Chinese archaeologist Pei Wenzhong unearths the first skullcap at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
• Jade relics at Sanxingdui in China.
• Mummy of Queen Meritamen.
• Roman Amphitheatre at Chester found by Hugh Thompson.
• Ruins of Kamiros on Rhodes.
• Guido Ucelli discovers the barges of Caligula in Lake Nemi.
• The Lyres of Ur in the tomb of Puabi.

  Publications

• V. Gordon Childe - The Danube in Prehistory.

  Births

• Elin C. Danien, American scholar of ancient Maya ceramics

  Deaths

• Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani, Italian archaeologist