1929 in archaeology

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The year 1929 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.

Agora in Athens.
Amri.
Excavations at Ugarit by Claude F. A. Schaeffer begin.
New excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by Max von Oppenheim.
Excavations of palaeolithic sites at Mount Carmel by Dorothy Garrod begin (continue to 1934).
Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

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
Mummy of Queen Meryet-Amun (daughter of Tuthmosis III)
Roman Amphitheatre at Chester found by Hugh Thompson
Ruins of Kamiros on Rhodes
Guido Ucelli discovers the legendary barges of Caligula in Lake Nemi
The Lyres of Ur is the tomb of Puabi

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