1945 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1945.

Excavations

 * Mortimer Wheeler excavates at Arikamedu in Puducherry.

Finds

 * December - Nag Hammadi library in Egypt.

Miscellaneous

 * W. F. Grimes succeeds Mortimer Wheeler as director of the London Museum.

Births

 * January 13 - Francis Pryor, English archaeologist
 * February 19 - Barbara Adams, English egyptologist (d. 2002)
 * April 16 - Vladas Žulkus, Lithuanian underwater archaeologist
 * October 25 - J. P. Mallory, Irish American archaeologist and Indo-Europeanist
 * James Peter Allen, American Egyptologist

Deaths

 * March 31 - Harriet Boyd Hawes, American archaeologist (b. 1871)
 * May 5 - Edgar James Banks, American antiquarian (b. 1866)
 * May 31 - Friedrich Sarre, German Orientalist (b. 1865)
 * 9 December - Alfred Lucas, English analytical chemist and archaeologist, part of Howard Carter's team at the excavation of Tutankhamun's tomb (b. 1867)