1952 in archaeology

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The year 1952 in archaeology involved some significant events.

Explorations

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.

In Schleswig, Germany, Windeby I and Windeby II, bog bodies, were discovered in a peat bog during a span of three months.^[1]
Another bog body, known as "Grauballe Man" is discovered in Grauballe, Denmark.^[2]

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.

↑ Gill-Robinson, Heather Catherine (2006). The iron age bog bodies of the Archaeologisches Landesmuseum, Schloss Gottorf, Schleswig, Germany. Manitoba: University of Manitoba. ISBN 9780494122594. (Doctors thesis)
↑ Foreword to Asingh., Pauline; Lynnerup, Niels (2007). Grauballe man: An Iron Age bog body revisited. Aarhus: Aarhus University press. ISBN 978-87-88415-29-2.

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