title: 1929 in archaeology
text: # 1929 in archaeology
  
  Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1929.
  
  ## 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 (continue to 1934).
  * First of the Pazyryk burials in Siberia, by M. P. Gryaznov.
  * Grobiņa in Latvia, by Birger Nerman.
  * Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
  * Whitehawk Camp near Brighton in England by R. P. Ross Williamson and E. Cecil Curwen.
  
  ## 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 (daughter of Thutmose III).
  * Roman Amphitheatre at Chester (England) 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
  
  * May 6: Rosemary Cramp, British medieval archaeologist (died 2023)
  * July 17: Elin C. Danien, American scholar of ancient Maya ceramics (died 2019)
  * September 23: Viktor Sarianidi, Soviet archaeologist, discoverer of the Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex (died 2013)
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * Rodolfo Amadeo Lanciani, Italian archaeologist (born 1845)
  