1949 in archaeology
# 1949 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1949.

## Events

* November 21–23 - First Internationales Sachsensymposion held.
* University of New Mexico transfers lands to the National Park Service and expands Chaco Canyon National Monument, with the proviso that the university may continue scientific research.

## Excavations

* February 15 - Gerald Lankester Harding and Roland de Vaux begin excavations at Cave 1 of the Qumran Caves in the West Bank region of Jordan, the location of the first seven Dead Sea Scrolls.
* Excavation work recommences at the Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.
* Alberto Ruz Lhuillier begins excavations of the Temple of the Inscriptions, Palenque.
* Seton Lloyd begins excavations at Sakçagözü.
* Grahame Clark begins excavations at Star Carr, North Yorkshire (continues to 1951).
* Conclusion of excavations in the Vatican Necropolis.

## Finds

* Radiocarbon dating technique discovered by Willard Libby and his colleagues during his tenure as a professor at the University of Chicago.
* Anak Tomb No. 3 (dated 357 CE) found in North Korea.
* New excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China unearth 5 teeth and fragments of thigh and shin bone.
* First new discoveries of Nimrud ivories by British School of Archaeology in Iraq led by Max Mallowan.
* 12th century murals discovered in Coombes Church, West Sussex, England.

## Publications

* 'C. W. Ceram' - Götter, Gräber und Gelehrte (Gods, Graves and Scholars: the story of archaeology).
* T. D. Kendrick - Late Saxon and Viking Art.

## Births

* Dolores Piperno - American archaeologist

## Deaths

* 23 April - Percy Newberry, English archaeologist (b. 1869)
