1960 in archaeology

Excavations

 * "Cave of Letters" at Nahal Hever in the Judaean Desert.
 * Fishbourne Roman Palace, West Sussex.
 * Floors excavated at the Una Vida great house, Chaco Canyon.
 * Cape Gelidonya shipwreck excavation, by Peter Throckmorton, George F. Bass and Frédéric Dumas, begins.
 * August: Excavations at Castle Tower, Penmaen, in Wales begin, led by Leslie Alcock of University College Cardiff. Further small-scale work is undertaken at the site the following year and the results published in 1966.

Publications

 * Glyn Daniel - The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of France.

Finds

 * Helge Ingstad and Anne Stine Ingstad find apparent Viking site at L'Anse aux Meadows in Newfoundland.
 * Tomb of Princess Yongtai found in Qianling Mausoleum, China.
 * Azykh Cave is discovered by Mammadali Huseynov in Azerbaijan.
 * November 4 - OH 7, first fragments of Homo habilis, discovered by Jonathan Leakey at Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
 * Statue of Athena Demegorusa in Nicopolis, western Greece.

Events

 * Chemical tests indicate that the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, are modern fakes.

Births

 * April 21 - Nicholas Thomas, Australian-born British archaeologist of Oceania
 * May 11 - Pál Sümegi, Hungarian geoarchaeologist
 * September 1 - Eric H. Cline, American Classical archaeologist
 * Timothy Taylor, English archaeologist

Deaths

 * February 20 - Leonard Woolley, English archaeologist (b. 1880)
 * March 11 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer (b. 1884)
 * May 13 - Antonios Keramopoulos, Greek archaeologist (b. 1870)
 * October 6 - Karel Absolon, Czech archaeologist (b. 1877)