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)