1955 in archaeology

The year 1955 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

• Thor Heyerdahl organizes the Norwegian Archaeological Expedition to Easter Island (continues to 1956).

Excavations

• A. C. O'Dell begins excavations on St Ninian's Isle (continues to 1958).
• Alexander Sahinian begins excavations at Etchmiadzin Cathedral in Armenia (continues to 1956).
• A. Ledyard Smith makes the first archaeological investigation of the Mayan site of Chutixtiox in Guatemala.
• Archaeological Survey of India begins excavations at Nagda chalcolithic site (continues to 1957).
• A Hebrew University team led by Yigal Yadin begins excavations at Tel Hazor (continues to 1958).

Publications

• Cyril Fox - Offa's Dyke: a Field Survey of the Western Frontier Works of Mercia in the Seventh and Eighth Centuries AD.
• Ivan D. Margary - Roman Roads in Britain, vol. 1.
• I. A. Richmond - Roman Britain (Penguin Books).

Finds

• May 19 - Greenock Coin Hoard.

Miscellaneous

• October - The term "Industrial archaeology" is popularised.^[1]

Births

• September 30 - Martin Millett, English Classical archaeologist.

Deaths

• January 1 - Arthur C. Parker, part-Seneca American archaeologist and ethnographer of Native Americans in the United States (born 1881).
• March 31 - Thomas Dunbabin, Australian-born Classical archaeologist and Greek Resistance leader (born 1911).
• August 17 - Edward Thurlow Leeds, English archaeologist of the Anglo-Saxons (born 1877).
• October 29 - Alexander Keiller, British archaeologist and benefactor (born 1889).
• December 15 - V. E. Nash-Williams, Welsh archaeologist (born 1897).
• December 25 - Thomas J. Preston, Jr., American archaeologist (born 1862).

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