1952 in archaeology

Below are notable events in archaeology that occurred in 1952.

Explorations

 * Site of Kerkouane discovered by Charles Saumagne.
 * Archaeological exploration of Maijishan Grottoes begins.

Excavations

 * Alberto Ruz Lhuillier opens the tomb of Pacal the Great at Palenque.
 * Major excavations begin at Viking burial site of Lindholm Høje.
 * Excavations at Jericho led by Kathleen Kenyon begin (continues to 1958).
 * Excavations at the Palace of Nestor in Pylos resume (first started in 1939) by Carl Blegen (continues to 1969).
 * Oscar Broneer discovers and begins excavations of the Temple of Poseidon in Isthmia.

Publications

 * J. G. D. Clark - Prehistoric Europe: the Economic Basis.
 * David Knowles and J. K. S. St Joseph - Monastic Sites from the Air.

Finds

 * In Schleswig, Germany, Windeby I and Windeby II, bog bodies, were discovered in a peat bog during a span of three months.
 * Another bog body, known as "Grauballe Man" is discovered in Grauballe, Denmark.

Events

 * Grahame Clark is elected to the Disney Professorship of Archaeology in the University of Cambridge.
 * August 23 - Glyn Daniel begins to present Animal, Vegetable, Mineral? on BBC Television, a game show often featuring other archaeologists and archaeological artefacts.
 * Michael Ventris deciphers Minoan Linear B.

Births

 * March 30 - Alan Vince, British archaeologist (d. 2009)

Deaths

 * Alfred Foucher, French scholar and archaeologist (b. 1865)