title: 1951 in archaeology
text: # 1951 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1951.
  
  ## Excavations
  
  * c. January - Old Furnace, Coalbrookdale, England.
  * Awwam temple near Ma'rib in Yemen, by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues to 1952).
  * Stanwick Iron Age Fortifications in North Yorkshire, by Mortimer Wheeler (continues to 1952).
  * Hod Hill in Dorset, by Ian Richmond for the British Museum (continues to 1958).
  * Tasghîmût fortress in Morocco, by Charles Allain and Jacques Meunié.
  * Excavation of Chogha Zanbil in Iran by Roman Ghirshman begins.
  
  ## Explorations
  
  * 1951–1952 - British Academy Middle Nile Expedition in Sudan led by O. G. S. Crawford.
  
  ## Finds
  
  * May 12 - Gunnister Man found in a peat bog in Shetland.
  
  ## Events
  
  * July - The term "Industrial archaeology" is first used in print in Britain.
  * The Durrës Archaeological Museum is established in Durrës, Albania.
  
  ## Publications
  
  * Social Evolution, by V. Gordon Childe (1892–1957), Australian-born archaeologist.
  * The Prehistory of Wales, by W. F. Grimes (1905–1988), Welsh archaeologist.
  * A Land, by Jacquetta Hawkes (1910–1996), British archaeologist.
  
  ## Births
  
  * Keith Muckelroy, British maritime archaeologist (d. 1980)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 28 - Maud Cunnington, British archaeologist (b. 1869)
  