1950 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1950.

Explorations

 * Spring: Explorations at Timna in Yemen by Wendell Phillips of the American Foundation for the Study of Man (continues in 1951).

Excavations

 * Excavations at Stonehenge by R. J. C. Atkinson, Stuart Piggott and J. F. S. Stone.
 * Excavations at Wharram Percy by Maurice Beresford begin.
 * Excavations at Beitin, West Bank.
 * Excavations at Gordium by the University of Pennsylvania Museum under Rodney S. Young begin.

Finds

 * March 1 - A hoard of Roman coins is discovered at Hordley Grange, Shropshire, England.
 * May 8 - A bog body known as "Tollund Man" is discovered in Denmark.
 * The Upchurch Hoard is discovered in Upchurch, Kent, England.
 * A third premolar is discovered in materials sent back to Sweden by Otto Zdansky from his excavations of the Peking Man site at Zhoukoudian, China in 1921 and 1923.
 * Balfarg, a prehistoric site in Fife, Scotland, is discovered through air photography.
 * Three Roman mosaic pavements are found at Harpham in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.
 * Stabiae rediscovered.
 * The Garima Gospels at Abba Garima Monastery first become known to Western scholars.

Publications

 * T. C. Lethbridge - Herdsmen and Hermits: Celtic Seafarers in the Northern Seas.
 * V. E. Nash-Williams - The Early Christian Monuments of Wales.

Births

 * January 25 - Phil Harding, English field archaeologist
 * Wafaa El Saddik, Egyptian Egyptologist

Deaths

 * January 27 - Herbert Eustis Winlock, American Egyptologist who worked for the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art (b. 1884)