1929 in archaeology

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The year 1929 in archaeology involved some significant events.

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.

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.
Chinese archeologist Pei Wenzhong appointed field director of the continuing excavations at Peking Man Site in Zhoukoudian, China.

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.